Reviews

Out November 1, 2025, “Smile of Beauty” has Dan Szyller stepping straight into the emotional core of his ArtRock sensibilities. Szyller already sits at an unusual crossroads, as a Brazilian-born artist shaped by life in Israel, the U.S., and France, drawing heavily from The Doors’ mysticism, Pink Floyd’s atmosphere, and…

Released on November 5, 2025, Stephanie Happening’s new single “Ignition” arrives with meaning packed into every corner, with the date, the story, the ritual, and of course the fire at the center of it all. Bonfire Night in the UK meets National Stress Awareness Day and Eating Healthy Day, and…

Samuel Yuri’s Epic Scales arrive like a voltage strike across the sky, with all tension, atmosphere, and raw, unpolished force. The São Paulo composer has always blurred genre borders, but here he leans harder into the volatile blend of grunge grit, gothic gloom, and classic rock melodrama that fuels his…

Elion Melody’s Engraved Onto Infinity, released October 24, 2025, feels like cracking open someone’s long-distance love letters and finding each page humming with its own rhythm. The New York artist has always had a soft spot for vulnerability, but here he pushes deeper as he traces a relationship stretched across…

Antoin Gibson’s “Cirque du Sŏnus (Act I & II)”, released on October 31st, 2025 via Circum-Sŏnus, arrives as a milestone and a myth. It’s an audio ceremony marking the official birth of Circum-Sŏnus Ltd. What began as a whisper-dark concept in Gibson’s earlier work now expands into a full theatrical…

Grim Logick & Illlogick’s Cipher Chronicles: The Network Archives plays like a corrupted hard drive leaking memories and wounds straight into your headphones. The album is built as a fictional archive, with file numbers, AI narrators, digital fractures, but it hits with the rawness of a diary written in the…

Zellie Bride’s debut EP All That Lingers is as cinematic, soft, intimate and contemplative like the three am thoughts of an overthinker. Drawing from alternative indie pop but steering it toward something softer, more internal, the rising artist shapes five tracks around nostalgia, emotional paralysis, and the uneasy drift between…

JW Paris swings back into the spotlight with “Anything,” hitting like a pint thrown across a packed Camden bar. Premiering in October 2025, the track doubles down on everything the London trio does best with the grit, smugness and that unmistakable dirty Britpop snarl that feels ripped straight from a…

Finnish violinist and crossover artist Elisa V returns with her second single, “How You Feel,” out since October 24, 2025. Following the warm reception of her debut, Love of Yesterday, Elisa continues her mission to bridge the worlds of classical mastery and modern electronic production. A graduate of the prestigious…

Anna Josephine’s new single “You’re So Lucky” slips in soft, moody, and subtly devastating tones. Set against lightly strummed guitars and an autumn haze, the track captures the strange tenderness of being honest about your own emotional distance. Anna’s songwriting leans into that bittersweet knowing when she can’t offer stability…