When geography becomes aspiration, the journey matters more than the destination.
Ronboy: ‘Get Rich Fix’
The ghosts of unwanted advice have a way of lingering long after graduation, and Julia Laws channels that particular haunting with the kind of precision that suggests she’s been waiting years to exorcise these voices.
Damian Boylan: ‘Gossamer’
Some tracks announce themselves with fanfare; others drift into consciousness like morning light through gauze.
Keezoo: ‘Get to You’
There’s something almost architectural about the way Keezoo constructs tension on ‘Get to You’, building layers of ambient fog and foley percussion like a sound designer mapping the emotional geography of a neon-lit cityscape.
sander baie: ‘talk to me’
The command to ‘talk to me’ has rarely sounded this urgent, arriving through the prism of sander baie‘s particular blend of UK garage rhythms and techno’s relentless pulse.
Zola Blood: ‘Together’
What begins as wind chimes dissolving into memory quickly transforms into something more insistent, as if the London quartet have discovered new ways to make pleasure and pain occupy the same sonic space.
néomí: ‘It’s Never Easy (Leaving Someone Behind)’
There’s something profoundly unsettling about watching yourself disappear into someone else’s life, then having to excavate who you were before.
PIERS BARON: ‘Good Morning, Midnight’
Born from the liminal hours between day and dream, ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ finds PIERS BARON channelling the romantic tradition through a distinctly contemporary lens.
GoGo Penguin: ‘What We Are and What We Are Meant to Be’
Sometimes the most profound revelations arrive wearing the simplest clothes.
Suddenly: ‘Half Full’
Transience becomes the subject and the method on this deceptively buoyant meditation from the Brooklyn-Gainesville duo, where the inevitability of ending paradoxically liberates rather than constrains.
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