Reviews

UK songwriter and NHS doctor Euplasia swaps hospital corridors for kaleidoscopic daydreams on his new single “Hallayoola,” a jolt of upbeat indie rock that feels like pure sunshine on a grey February afternoon. Following the success of “You Wonder,” he leans into a brighter, more playful side here. It’s family-friendly,…

Silky Vibe’s “Box Chevy” is a late-night cruise down a Miami boulevard you half-remember from childhood. It’s hazy, bass-heavy, and strangely comforting. Working entirely solo out of his bedroom studio in Fort Lauderdale, he turns a personal car obsession into a small, self-produced world, with one part ode to the…

Chas Leman has swerved hard left with REPETITIVE STRAIN, trading the Elvis Costello/Bowie-ish indie of his debut for a 2000s-flavoured, loop-driven electronic world that still drips with kitchen-sink poetry and anti-capitalist side-eye. Co-written and produced with A. Charles, the EP aims at the grind of 9–5 life, rising costs, and…

Chicago singer-songwriter Dario Cohen has lived a few musical lifetimes, touring with blues legend Mississippi Fred McDowell, sharing a flat with Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green, logging over 2,000 shows, and you can hear all that road-earned tenderness in “Your Fan Club.” Recorded at New York’s iconic Power Station with Grammy-winning…

Bassist-composer Daren Burns has always been a musical shapeshifter, but on Fragmentation, he seems to gather all his histories, straight-ahead jazz, rock, avant-garde, and electric edges, into one wild, double-quartet fever dream. With fretless bass at the core and an eight-piece band of Southern California improvisers orbiting around him, this…

Peningo Riders might’ve rolled into people’s feeds with the witty “Duck That Jeep,” but with “Love Ain’t Everything,” they slam the gearstick firmly into full-blooded Southern Rock. Based out of Marianna, Florida, and steeped in classic Americana storytelling, the band uses this Friday-the-13th, pre-Valentine’s release to cut through the sugar…

Midnite Radio’s debut EP, Auntie, is a neon-lit rock opera beamed straight out of Nashville by way of Lebanon, Tennessee, and LA. Built on the long-running friendship of guitarist Lee Coram and drummer Beak Wing and fleshed out by vocalist/keyboardist Ken Christianson, bassist Miles Martin, and lead guitarist Jon Shearer,…

On their third album, Mountain, East Nashville quartet MIDTONES lean fully into the space between collapse and carry-on, with the everyday “midtones” where most of real life actually happens. With Daniel Brown’s raw, worn-in vocals up front and the band wrapping him in gentle piano, moody guitars, and atmospheric synths,…

Emmy-nominated filmmaker and vocalist Sarah McGuinness has always had a flair for cinematic storytelling, so it’s no surprise that “Don’t Let Our Love Go” doubles as a love song and a love letter to Soho. Originally from her debut album Unbroken and now re-recorded as the theme to the one-night…

Hallucinophonics are trying to sonically map the inside of a strange, lucid dream, and “Afternoon of Acid Rain” might be their most inviting trip yet. Sitting somewhere between space rock, indie folk warmth, and classic psych-prog, the track feels like stepping into a cartoon cosmos where everything looks unhinged but…