Familiarity and the outright unexpected walk hand in hand as the music evolves and explores its own sentiments.
Albums
New Orleans Entertainer Big Joe Kennedy Lights Up the New Year
with the Full-Band Jazz & Blues Classics of ‘Amalgamation’
From the instantly likable songwriter who brought us the folk-pop gem The Way To Be, Steve Savona delves into the true variety and presence of his sound, with the eclectic and anthem-loaded album Basically Me.
St Louis country rockers Midwest Avenue bring the beauty of a live band straight through the airwaves, for the 14-track original album Moon Goes Down.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Easy-going, organic rock and hopeful songwriting make up the aptly-titled new album from London songwriter and artist Mike Melan.
Introducing a welcomed exploration of the solo realm, Campfire Sigh’s own Grant Jesse Prosser launches a complex and colourful debut album, in the form of the wonderful Temporal Autumn.
Perhaps surprising that this is the first project of this name to cross our path – by all accounts, many of you reading this or experiencing this album are indeed Melophiles yourselves. Abhi Ananda, however, seems to encapsulate that quality with the clear complexity, versatility, skill and unwavering heart of these eight recordings.
The highly-anticipated debut album from Canada’s Kyle Richardson has finally hit the streaming sites – an eleven-track playlist of evocative and uplifting pop classics, beginning with the unmistakable anthem that is Can You Hear Me.