Reviews

“The Trumpet of Glory” by Zac Puah feels like a full-blown sunrise in song form. It’s radiant, reverent, and built to shake both festival stages and quiet church pews. A rising worship artist and producer, Zac has been carving out his own corner of modern Christian music by fusing cinematic…

“Ciclos” by Artomático steps into a living sound sculpture that shifts, breathes, and loops back on itself like the spiral groove of a vinyl record. Artomático is a Spanish sound artist, composer, and percussionist whose work lives at the crossroads of rhythm, texture, and perception. His approach blends acoustic percussion…

“Dead End” by Antoin Gibson trembles at the edges of the dark. London-based artist Antoin Gibson releases the single under Circum-Sŏnus, continuing a cinematic, avant-garde dark-pop world built around sound design, emotional starkness, and conceptual intention. This one feels especially bare-boned, though, stripped right back to piano and voice, letting…

“Come Out Lazarus I – Life Is Over” by Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice arrives as a bold first step into People Zero, a concept album built from human episodes rather than a straight-line story. Here, the band dives into a real, shattering event: a man dying in a…

“Milk&Honey” finds Rotterdam indie rock outfit The Smackbar teaming up once again with art collective Eruption Artistique for something intimate and surreal. The band’s core trio, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Emil, folk vocalist Sara, and history teacher–songwriter Bas, already have a reputation for building entire worlds from scratch, with homemade…

“Don’t You Worry” by Sabrina Nejmah is a cozy sci-fi movie wrapped in a love song. Just before 2025 bows out, the Hamburg-based singer, born in 2008 to a Moroccan mother and German father, drops her second track, and it’s impressively self-assured. The whole thing plays out aboard a starship…

“Hanging On” by Eddie Somera is a late-night heart-to-heart set to a hazy island skyline. Based in Waikiki, Hawaii, Eddie is a working musician who gigs six nights a week across Oahu, from restaurants and bars to infinity pools and private events, and that live-earned honesty spills straight into this…

“Smile” finds Kansas City artist Jon Henri doing what he does best, as he turns a real relationship drama into a smooth, radio-ready pop/rock groove. A songwriter, producer, and veteran crossover name, Jon’s long moved between pop, rock, and rap, with credits alongside Lil Jon, Tag Team, 2 Live Crew,…

“What Brings You Back” finds indie pop/pop-rock artist Lana Crow leaning all the way into the spiritual heartbeat that’s always pulsed under her music. Released just this January 7, 2026, the single imagines a loving, ever-present voice speaking straight into the ear of someone who’s hanging by a thread. Instead…

Oreaganomics kick off 2026 with Locked Out on Valentine’s Day, an album that feels like a late-night transmission from a parallel economy of the heart. The anonymous, underground collective, born in rural Kansas, sharpened in Chicago, now tucked away between Kansas and Nebraska, has built a reputation on refusing the…