Acoustic musician and songwriter Summer Redstone leads with a much-welcomed dose of clear authenticity as a modern artist. The sheer feeling and delicate intensity of her two recent singles highlight a sense of talent and purpose in the field, Summer’s voice meandering through long-form melodic musings, backed only by an acoustic guitar, and delivering a fine balance between the familiar and the impressively original.

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Quirky indie-pop with an instantly distinct artistic quality. Brooklyn’s Ben Silby delivers a minimalist but soulful introduction to the brand new album Can’t Hang, and proceeds to build upon that performative quality throughout the project.

“I don’t want to be one thing, so I’ll be nothing.”

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Utah songwriter and devout creative Richard Tyler Epperson forever leads with an original sense of structure and production that’s unlimited by genre or expectation. His latest work, the full-length album Fragmented Night, is a colourful and impressive testament to that consistency and talent, and it delivers an engaging fusion of familiarity and outright unexpected design.

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Dark synths and poetic wonder create an immaculate and dreamy headspace, as London’s alt-pop songwriter and creative Dirt Flirt starts up this mesmerising new self-titled EP. Necklace is the opener, blending ethereal synths and modern rhythms, with vocal emotion and effects carefully balanced. Not only this, but the song is well-written – catchy and simple … Continued

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Unafraid to go-there experimentally as an artist, Stephan Folkes adopts a playful and limitless creative angle with music. His sound is not traditionally satisfying, but his voice, in both tone and songwriting, is undeniably recognisable from one release to the next, and there’s a lot to be said for artistic integrity.

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