The elusive paqx creates music from the spirit and the soul, blending instrumental purity with spoken reflections and personal honesty, across uniquely ambient, beautiful playlists like the Wetakkim album.
Rebecca Cullen
Across the entirety of The Engine, Acid City Nuns present for half the time as fun-loving musicians, and for the other half as profoundly topical observers of a world of uncertainty and error.
Deeply atmospheric trip-hop production meets with breathy and soulful vocals, for an RnB-fusion single that’s as evocative as it is mood-setting and ultimately uplifting. Vironnica delivers a seductive and catchy anthem of longing to connect, for the poetic and immersive Mirage.
Poetry is central to The Psycho Rise, political contemplations framed within metaphors and images that sound beautifully fluid yet intensely poignant in their topical relevance.
Bad Bubble never fails to drive with the soul and the honest search for connection and understanding. War is its own creative beast entirely, beautiful and heartbroken, perhaps relatable to many but also unflinchingly personal.
Inspiring listeners to seek self-development and achieve things in life, by way of a clear understanding of the reality of self, Free Will, God, and the soul, the conversation is not binary in its relaying of facts or answers, but instead suggests possibilities and the likely outcome of both open-minded and limiting perspectives.
There’s a subtle pulse to the CURFEW project, humble threads of character in the production and playful musicianship, which all connects well to the story and inspiration at its core. The streets are quiet at night, until they’re suddenly wild.
“Experimental, dark, storytelling songs with a vein in hiphop and shoegaze. Weird repetitive lyrics followed by lengthy thought out verses, typically with a lot of details in the vocals themselves.”
Introducing a Dublin-based True Crime Podcast with a brilliant twist of humour – Mortal Musings Podcast is presented by long-time couple Megan and Neil; the former a well-researched Irish-woman with a strong grasp of each case, the latter a Northern English chap with a short attention span.
To coincide with the release of his latest anthem I’m On My Way, rapper and artist Ronald Mkiza kindly stopped by for an interview.
Form the EP The Futurists, Time Flies marks a fine introduction to Popgang, a retro bass-line and ethereal guitar setting the foundation for a Damon Albarn-like vocal to softly blend expressive sentiments and references with a clear sense of character and heart.
A catchy floor-filler and a strong introduction to indie artists Montana Millz and Queen JuJu.