Reviews

Vanna Pacella’s “Wolf” is a ghostly, gut-punch of a track. It’s raw, atmospheric, and emotionally arresting in all the right ways. Released on March 1, 2025, this ambient rock ballad with pop inflections reveals the young Cape Cod artist as a vocalist and songwriter unafraid to bare every nerve. Built…

Tom Tippin’s new single “Olympic Medalist” is a masterstroke in confessional songwriting. With a title that sounds almost like a punchline, the track takes a deeply self-critical moment and spins it into something cathartic and universally relatable. At first glance, it may look like a victory anthem in the traditional…

Sasha Joy’s new single “New Land” is an anthem for transformation, a luminous sonic voyage that melds emotional clarity with genre-bending finesse. Released on May 9, 2025, the track signals a bold artistic evolution for the rising contemporary soul artist, pulling from an eclectic palette that includes soul, funk, RnB,…

“Boum Boum Boum” by Tomás Jensen featuring Bïa is a soft, cheeky delight that dances somewhere between romance and satire, all wrapped in the gentle sway of bossa nova. As the first single from Jensen’s upcoming album À l’humain ! À la vertu!, this track previews the multilingual, multicultural richness…

Spearside gets ferocious in their latest EP, Hatchet Man. Out of their studio in Trim, Co. Meath, brothers Oisín and Cian Walsh cook up something raw and primal from scratch, distilling decades of punk, garage, and psych into four blistering tracks. If you’ve never heard a band that sounds like…

You can guess what this one is about, can’t you? “Watermelon” by The Zaramutas protests in distortion, fury, and aching tenderness. Dropping June 27, 2025, as the first single from the band’s upcoming album, the track is an unflinching statement of solidarity with Palestine, rooted in urgent political grief and…

Golden Fez’s latest single “Pretty Blue Eyes” is a smoky, sultry plunge into the disorienting high of late-night lust losing itself in the highs of emotion. Released on June 6, 2025, and produced in collaboration with Eugeniu Vinitchi at Choisez Studio in Canary Wharf, the track draws from the sensations,…

“Feed Me Hope” by Her Picture undergoes emotional rebirth, incorporating myth and modernity into a searing alt-rock concept record that lives up to, and even surpasses, the anticipation. The Glasgow-based trio’s six-track EP, released June 20, draws on the Greek myth of the Five Rivers of the Underworld, but don’t…

Chris St. John’s latest single “A Flower Blooms” delivers a radiant burst of warmth and emotional depth wrapped in an irresistibly genre-blending soundscape. Taken from his acclaimed new album Never Where I Am, this track distills everything that makes St. John an artist to watch with his heartfelt lyrics, soulful…

Mary Strand’s shimmering and nostalgic latest single, “Does Any of This Really Matter,” is a psychedelic swirl of existential inquiry wrapped. Departing from her garage and power-pop roots, Strand floats into psych-rock territory with surprising ease. The track, released June 13 via Hygh Tension Records/Virgin Music Group, is a shimmering,…