“They like it when I smile, not when I speak.”
Raina Wiles sets the mood beautifully for this project – an opening line and ambiance fit to captivate, for an EP that evocatively follows suit.
Glass Skin is divine, a lo-fi trip hop project with a soul-pop vocal lead, and lyrics that pierce through the noise as soulful reflections on life for a girl in the modern world.
Reflecting on the subject matter of survivor’s guilt, everything from the writing to the performance of Martyr breathes authenticity and meaning into the creative ambient space. The idea of being thought of as strong, when deep-down you feel devastation, and still haven’t healed from the trauma, is one that’s perhaps more common than expected, and yet it’s rarely – if ever – brought about in contemporary music and songwriting.
Introducing the brand new 2025 album Radio Reception, from Vincent Projects. Loose Sleep presents an ambient, atmospheric lo-fi groove to open things up – rising through colourful and aptly dreamy layers of synth and rhythm, towards a uniquely wave-like progression.
Uniquely colourful lo-fi grooves and mellow, distinct vocals – a humble and dreamy tapestry of sound and lyricism, introducing the four-track EP from a stylistically unconfined Treeko291.
Organic summer vibes and expressive vocals bring through a low-key disco-funk kind of vibe, as multi-instrumentalist Tito Strange intertwines catchy riffs and soulful performative flair, for Crutch.
Lo-fi jazz keys and freely expressive vocals meander through stages of near spoken-word melodies and falsetto peaks – Marvin Bloo leads with a nostalgic trip-hop minimalism and loving contemplations, for the three-track EP Love Letter Pt. 1.
Music-making racoon Trash Panda collaborates with long-time friend Andrew, to deliver an aptly-titled album of original compositions that quickly sets listeners off on an immersive and dreamy journey.
Ambient melodic originality and with thousands of listeners to back up its appeal, miso808 delivers an enchanting and deeply soothing collection of tracks, with the layered harmonies and stylistic freedom of bedtime stories mp3.
Soulful and dreamy production lays down an intoxicatingly mellow groove, as Nigerian artist and songwriter Makarihba sets up the equally smooth and seductive single got.
devils in the details is a delicate to industrial arrangement of unique layers and fragments, a playful but dramatic sense of darkness ensuing, with links to old school trip hop but more notably an original take on electronic production – something that consistently rings loud across the jcSubterfuge catalogue.
While there’s plenty of Christian rock and metal now circulating, to my knowledge there isn’t a huge amount of electronic sub-genre representation in the realm of Faith. Demons Go Down acts as a formidable driving force in that regard.
Exploring the lesser celebrated topic of friendship, Doris DatWay leads with natural musicianship and quiet, soothing vocals, to present a story both visually and musically, that connects for its purity and warmth united amidst an otherwise chaotic modern realm.
