French singer-songwriter and performer of Italian origin Paolo Mezzini is based in Metz, France, where he has developed a musical identity rooted in romantic Italian pop, intimate …
Death is universal, yet “As One Global Ghost” has little interest in making it feel simpler or easier to accept. King of Cups approaches mortality through uncertainty, …
What do you do when there is nothing left to hold on to? For Rotterdam-based, Indo-Surinamese musician Tjipkali, the answer lies in facing the darkness, placing it …
“Angels Ball Out” introduces that world gently. Soft electronic textures and floating vocal elements create a hazy, spacious opening, and the track is comfortable letting the mood …
Grief carries a particular weight in street music, especially when the people being remembered belonged to the artist’s real life. On “Letter To Duck & Dooski,” Chicago …
Over 30 years after German punk/alternative rock outfit Coma Beach began carving out their strange corner of the underground, “The Scapegoat’s Agony (Edits, Odds & Ends)” brings …
Blurring the line between the physical and the ethereal, Aronieme’s “Hallow” unfolds as a dream pop centerpiece with a haunting pull. It begins quietly, almost as if …
Road imagery has a long history in songs about ambition, struggle, memory, and change. On “Down This Road,” PIVE makes the familiar metaphor personal, tracing a career …
Malta-based composer and musician Serag Baddar has returned to an idea he believed in long before he knew how to finish it. The seed was a guitar …
A great rhythm section can make time feel elastic. On “Bending Time,” independent guitarist Omer B and fusion mainstay Oz Noy take a compact instrumental funk-rock groove …