Atmospheric and intimate all at once, lo-fi keys providing warmth, dreamy vocals and playful rhythms adding a trip-hop sense of expressive guidance, as we dive into something unpredictable, ethereal, and boldly imaginative by nature…
Alternative
Raw and imperfect, unfiltered and free – an artist opposed to AI-made music and as such maintaining a certain human realism that’s all the more valuable for its timing. Vituia gets provocative, dark, poetic, reflective, and bold, throughout a growing collection of free-flowing original tracks.
New music from the distinct indie corner of organic production that is Willie Alex – Leave Me Or Love Me builds up a secure and recognisable sense of identity, with a selection of layers that feel like both an alternative electronic loop and a live indie rock performance.
Noting years of commitment to making music with authenticity and from the ground up, Willie Alex is a producer with a refreshing realism to his sound. The music is genuine, real, man-made, and that creativity and heart can never be faked. This one consumes you as it pours through the airwaves.
Letting creativity take the wheel, producer and artist 2heart2crash presents an 8-track album of entirely unexpected, colourful and compelling original works, for the simply named but complexly crafted 22.
Knflct returns, the organic chaos of an elusive artist with a level of creative freedom and intention that stops you in your tracks. This two-track release entitled Oh… is as stylistically raw and carefree as its title implies, but it also employs both a colourful and distorted production, to elevate a simple, descending melody, and self-reflective sentiments that feel scornful but empowering.
From a heavy alternative ambiance to pure instrumental intensity, by way of folk-like imagery and scenes – the fiercely unique creative act Second Choice deliver a cinematic and soulful journey, for By The Blackened Fern.
Dark and cinematic production meets with intriguing vocals and piercing poetic statements. The energy builds, the ambience engulfs, and meanwhile, the song slowly but surely tightens its grip with vivid, unignorable imagery.
Italy’s OP reflects artistically on the emotional and societal weight of global turmoil – war, elite profit making, and the moral stance of the many.
Just 18 years old and already capturing the hearts and attention of tens of thousands of listeners, Makaio Huizar has achieved a uniquely introspective and ambient original style with his music. That style appears to culminate for the end of a busy year, with the release of his honest and heart-breaking alternative Christmas song Merry … Continued
Better Red Than Dead loops out to intensely hypnotise its audience, as we fall deeper under the spell of this intricate analysis and presentation of psychological strain and suffering; daily life consumed by nuclear threat, inner turmoil, and cultural division.
To coincide with the launch of one of this year’s most interesting, unusual and compelling original debuts, we sat down with songwriter, artist and performer Shereen Suleiman, to talk about the complexity and power of Ghareeb. Here’s how it went. * * * Hi Shereen – great to meet you, I’m so excited to talk … Continued
“I was watching lots of news reports about accusations of sexual assault against people who were very rich and it struck me that the victims had no recourse because the accused had money behind them, whole teams and structures.”