Ambient simplicity creates a dreamlike warmth as a long-form vocal outpouring repeats a single sentiment, to romantic and intimate, hypnotic results
Emo
Deeply honest, personal yet relatable in its relaying of the emotions, the heartache and excitement combined that comes with summer love.
Impressively melodic, appropriately dreamy trip-hop meets with contemporary emo and RnB stylings for this addictively ambient, softly soulful new project from Dean Cosmic.
Freshly released from the deluxe collection of the same name, Jay Will’s By The Ocean (Acoustic) makes for a blissfully delicate, musically pure and intimate summer love song that introduces the artist well.
Explosive pop-punk vibes reignite the sound of a simpler era – alongside a clear edge of contemporary emo-rap throughout this superb collection of originals from the one and only POPSTARR
From romantic, cinematic spoken-word beginnings, through an equally ambient, emotive and riff-led opening song, LIZZard King keeps things contemporary yet genuine with this intimate ode to relationship complexity.
Genre is far from a limitation here, more a suggestion, and with each track we get a new stage of change. Acoustic, gentle, distorted, heavy, fast-paced, whispered, artistic. Everything’s here, and all of it has purpose.
Bringing together an indie-funk, guitar-led soundscape and emo-rap melodies and sentiments, Joe Washko’s new single leads with colour and melancholy united.
Melodically pure, meandering and consistently creative, Empath unites stylish production qualities with a poetic and thoughtful undertone.
Reverb-kissed guitar work and heavier trap rhythms unite for this emotive yet bold new single from a contemporary-styled Hephaeus and gonedark.
The track is delicate then heavy, projecting its underlying intentions and the wave-like life of a nihilist in everything from the lyrics to the performances to the arrangement.
A heavy wash of production fuzz meets with crisp guitar riffs and a refreshingly upfront and vulnerable vocal lead for this contemporary emo-rap single from Flatlinerz.