“The band name is a silly joke about my disability that my mother did when I was a teenager.”
France--Europe
Lush lo-fi soul and jazz meets crisp contemporary drum and bass – an immersive and sublime listen, with distinct and quiet yet boldly mixed and beautiful vocals – all makes up the ambient and ethereal new release from French artist and songwriter Ua.
Something sonically consuming, energising and colourful – an uplifting bounce of a track, with a circus-like energy, and seductive spoken vocals from a French duo with a uniquely creative approach to music.
Something simply stumbled upon, compelling you to stop everything and just be, just listen, just settle. Nox Vale are a French band capturing a calming and unusual sound – a kind of colourful, not quite familiar sense of dreamy wonder. Paired vocals and something like complexity and minimalism walk hand-in-hand, as the wonderful Parallel Drift delivers a dose of pure artistic wonder and creativity.
Brilliant punk-rock writing and a passionate all-together-now recording introduces the timeless and aptly-titled volume of French band GRINFAITH’s intoxicating anthem RIOT.
Simply expressive, beautiful and timeless – atmospheric synth-wave production underlying an intimate alt-folk and RnB fusing vocal. Carl Matah captures something poetically unexpected and powerful, with the breathy wonder and rising emotional weight of Beauty In Stains.
Slowly increasing the ambient details, the melodic resolve of Swan is easy-going but effective, ‘the swan is down’ feeling almost unfinished every time it appears, and adding a kind of alternative, perhaps Damien Rice-like melodic uncertainty and ache to the music.
French duo Riatto & The Dog captivate in seconds, with the breathy harmonies and lyrical poetry of this heartfelt and melancholic but hopeful indie folk stomp.
From ambient vocal harmonies through an upbeat indie pop arrangement that’s timeless in its fusion of light dance and intimate heartbreak, FERDIE blends melancholy and optimism quite seamlessly, with the gentle to impassioned single Till Dawn.
Full transparency now to hopefully help this reach precisely the right listeners. JAMAIS ASSEZ is a Celtic punk-rock anthem, with a heavy bagpipe riff, an all-together-now indie chant for a hook, and an underlying global message that’s imperative to consider right now.
The single builds around an atmospheric, natural world aura, and within a fairly modest runtime of less than four minutes, it evolves through layers of dark synths, sci-fi tones, and a totally playful, expressive structure. Think eighties synth-wave with a twist of rising energy, an intricate balance between meditative waves of calm and sudden jolting hits of vibrancy.
Introducing a huge indie anthem, with a slick groove and unignorable bassline. KAISER meet creatively somewhere between soul, rock, and the big brass bands of the festival world. Gloria is a sensational and timeless single, released in the Spring but all the more warming as a go-to tune this coming winter.