Brilliant, beautiful, poignant, often relatable. You can’t help but like it, lose yourself to the groove, and soon find yourself contemplating greater depths.
Pop
Matthew Schultz kicks off this side of the summer with a creatively colourful groove as this refreshing collaborative release One Wok hits the scene.
Retro synths and the full embrace of warming electro-pop meet with loving, uplifting sentiments and melodies as ET Boys continue their climb with Something Love.
Schultz brings a clear level of ability to the scene, and manages to create euphoric, familiar yet still original tracks in every case.
Openly dedicated towards improving awareness and understanding of mental health struggles in our society, Griegz crafted My Own Enemy after suffering from depression and indeed, sadly, losing loved ones to it.
Ambient simplicity creates a dreamlike warmth as a long-form vocal outpouring repeats a single sentiment, to romantic and intimate, hypnotic results
“Living like this keeps me ill” resounds as a near-falsetto peak, right before the fall back to acoustic softness, and it kicks in for this placement – it lingers, it engages, it’s memorable.
Everything from the quirky vocals to the clear joy in the delivery makes this a colourful summer shot that quickly drowns out the darkness of the world for a while.
Catchy pop meets with organic guitar rhythms and contemporary hip hop tones as Mowille blends all manner of genres throughout a bass-heavy yet melodic Ride N Roll.
Not a common style of late, and with Ritter’s unique take on structure and melodic switching for the chorus, there’s all the more reason to check this one out .
The folk-pop satisfaction of ‘You’re fighting just to win one…’ marks the song’s most addictive melodic moment, with poetic lyrics that satisfy again and prove as memorable as the hook line.
A loving album, hard-hitting and intimate in equal parts, with its roots firmly planted in the dreamy euphoria of EDEN but a clear thread of realness intertwined amidst that.