Reviews

13illy is a 20-year-old Canadian R&B/hip-hop artist splitting time between Vancouver and Beijing, and “Need You” arrives April 3, 2026, as the opening salvo in a three-song narrative arc. Built around an emotional guitar loop from producer CJR and polished by Grammy-nominated engineer Jeff Jackson, the single sits squarely in…

“You’re On Fire” is Ali Rice’s tender comeback single, recorded in his home studio and centred on admiring someone from afar while fearing the burn of closeness. After a break from releasing songs, Rice returns with warm guitar textures, subtle piano, and drifting synth layers that paint an intimate, cinematic…

Iuliano, Italian singer-songwriter and producer schooled at Berklee and shaped by years across Italy, Malaysia, and Thailand, returns with “Time”, the lead single from his upcoming album The Place. A past Independent Music Award winner, he uses the track as a cinematic, intimate, and emotionally raw reintroduction, a postcard from…

Marley Davidson is a solo composer, songwriter and singer whose music channels a neurodiverse perspective into songs that aim straight for the heart. Recorded in Dundee with lush strings arranged and mixed by Alistair Steele (The Korgis) and performed by the Welsh TV & Film Orchestra, “Fragile” is Marley’s first…

One Last Time is a Luxembourg rock band fronted by Andrea Galleti, whose profile rose after a standout run on The Voice of Germany in 2025. Co-written with Albin Fredy, Bruce Robert Francis and Jonas Holteberg Jensen and road-tested at a songwriting camp in Belgium, the group has sculpted a…

Highway Wolf, the San Francisco-based project led by Mick Hellman alongside Tal and Amber Morris, steps into original territory with “No Time For Time,” a reflective rock ballad shaped by loss and the search for meaning. Known for reworking classics, this release feels like a turning point—something more personal, more…

Least We Got Shoes, Bradford’s boxcar-rock bruisers, return with Chapter Two, released April 3, 2026, a raucous, more expansive follow-up that tightens their raw live energy into sharper songwriting. Wayne, Ben (DB), Blake Fox, and Kurt keep the melodies muscular and the hooks unapologetically big. Right out of the gate,…

Crescent, a Hartlepool psychedelic-rock outfit led by Caleb Hay (guitars/vocals) and Millie Jones (keys/vocals), return with a six-track EP, Lamentations (April 3, 2026). Recorded with Mark Folland, rescued by a decisive re-recorded drum performance from Christian Tunney, and given vintage-valve sheen by Jon Sevink’s mastering, the record feels like a…

Cogley (formerly Paul Cogley) reimagines and expands his 2022 opus into a bold double-vinyl and streaming reissue called Deep Blue Sky, released March 24, 2026. Through experimental rock, alt-electronica, and heartfelt songwriting, the record grew from a two-year labour into a 16-track statement about redemption, empathy, and keeping sight of…

ONEWAY is the project of Dayton singer-songwriter and youth pastor Dustin Burkhard, who turns fifteen years of pastoral care and trauma into music that sits between contemplative worship and modern rock. Released March 9, 2026, “Breakdown” is a bruised, honest single built to meet people in their hardest hours, a…