The Habit is a great song, one of the most engaging of the year, with dreamy rising vocals, unique storytelling, and a huge rock crescendo to finish. It’s one of several slowly emerging releases from The Marches.
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Uniquely ethereal layers of breathy vocals, synths and keys, lead us into a starkly contrasted rap vocal, as London artist Anoushka Hem captures a fearless fusion of fast-paced electronic production and long-form lyrical outpourings, with Enough For Me.
Love It Or Lose It is the brand new album, from which the songs take subtle influence from pop and pop rock, with the likes of Would You promising a nineties-style arrangement with a heartfelt but ultimately confrontational and confident hook.
Atmospheric live music and lush vocals present a gorgeously soothing EP. Jazz-rooted vocalist and songwriter Heather Ferguson collaborates with a talented band of musicians, for the five-track project Jammin’ Under Jack.
When an artist makes music because it’s the kind they actually want to hear, a certain authenticity and heart emerges, which can’t be found in the more methodical, stream-chasing releases more commonly stumbled across.
The band move from strength to strength without a doubt, but there’s something truly captivating, relatably claustrophobic, uncertain and yet calming, about this poignant display of introspective suffocation.
There are 12 brand new songs on FunkTheAI’s Dive Deep Into Love, and just in case the title and artwork didn’t confirm it – this is a genuine deep dive into all things relating to the power and necessity of love.
Mutevole writes songs from the heart and mind combined, a sort of reactive, freely creative approach to modern music, and the results are mysterious and interesting, musically satisfying, catchy, and cool; to say the very least.
Something like a blast from the past kicks in with the new three-track release from A Project Called Love. Think of the acoustic folk-punk, ska and reggae bands of a simpler era – the daytime festival sets that never quite left your psyche; the indie voices and stories, the good vibes.
Indie-rock fusion lights up stories and songs by way of an eclectic gathering of talented musicians. Montreal artist Scott Cook promises characterful charm, catchy hooks, smooth melodies and passionate resolves, with the enchanting layers, tones and concepts of Guy Fawkes Day, 1947.
For the highly-anticipated release of the EP from which the stunning original song Love Me Now emerged, Australian artist Tom Morfitt-White delivers a beautifully fitting four-track collection, which not only confirms the talent of the title-track, but actually doubles down on it.
Uplifting African grooves and lush, expressive vocals relay stories of struggle and conceptual, topical depth. Ghanaian Gospel artist and philanthropist Felicia Boadu captures a tropical bounce and heartfelt, gorgeously harmonised musicality, with the unique optimism and storytelling of new album Possible God.