Reviews

Cronos Matter returns with “Guiding Light,” released just this November 1st, 2025, leading into the band’s cinematic rock sensibility while grinding into sensitivity and spiritual searching. The project, often described as “future-born” for its atmospheric rock, ambient textures, and storytelling, leans closer to a tender ballad form. It’s a song…

Dotts O’Connor’s new single “Fail We May” arrives like a steadying and warm hand on the shoulder. The track is rooted in the now-famous Andrew Weatherall story, where a simple exchange with a fisherman led to being struck with the mesmerizing resilient mantra, “Fail we may, but sail we must.”…

Steel & Velvet’s new release, People Just Float, is unhurried, intimate, and carved down to only what matters. Built by Breton musicians Johann Le Roux, Romuald Ballet-Baz, and Jean-Alain Larreur, the band has always favored the raw bones of music, with acoustic guitars and a voice that doesn’t hide behind…

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Hunter Sheridan returns with “Stuck in October,” released October 3rd, 2025, a single that leans into vulnerability while reaching for emotional renewal. Written and produced independently in his home studio and mixed/mastered by Damian Birdsey, the track feels distinctly personal, while being born from late-night truths, the ones…

Miss Ashley Jean’s new EP Off the Hinge comes from a deeply personal place, shaped by late-night overthinking, complicated almost-relationships, and trying to fit into beauty standards that were never made with real women in mind. AJ met producer and multi-instrumentalist Sean McVerry at a We Are Scientists show in…

Mexican Korean composer, guitarist, and producer Inez Leon returns with a warm and intimate R&B offering in “Show Me How,” released October 26 alongside a dance-driven music video. Following her Spanish rock EP Del Alhelí, this track is emotionally rich in its soft-pop elegance and 90s R&B nostalgia. Known for…

Opening Time For The Battered finds David Palfreyman taking stock in personal spaces where time, memory, and creative identity live. The album brings rock, folk, alternative, and touches of pop on a single serving while being grounded, human, and reflective. It’s the sound of someone who has been around life…

Super Creeps don’t care about refinement, metaphor, or making you comfortable. They care about impact. Produced with Grammy-winning engineer Reto Peter, Double Plastik is five tracks of exactly that buzzing, lofi garage rock fed through distortion and cynicism. The guitars sound like they’re melting through blown-out amplifiers, the drums feel…

Sharon Ruchman’s new album From the Heart does exactly what its title promises, as it communicates feeling first, without theatrics or excess, relying on the natural conversation between violin and piano to carry emotional weight. It’s her sixth album overall, but her first devoted solely to violin–piano duets, created in…

After a year of stepping back, reassessing, and rebuilding, Max Edwards returns with “Don’t Walk Away,” wearing his heart on his sleeves as he serves up vulnerability, honesty and relatability. This is Edwards turning inward, taking the time to understand his voice again, and emerging with a sound that is…