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By the Time Call Me When You Get This Fades, You Don’t Just Walk Away Humming Choruses. You Walk Away Knowing Lauren Ash

I’ll admit: I didn’t expect to still be thinking about Lauren Ash’s music a couple months (has It really been that long?) after she dropped her first rock singles. At the time, “Cool Story, Bro” and “Dumpster Fire” seemed like interesting tracks that I knew I had to keep tabs on. So when news came […]

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Freidrich$ Isn’t Hiding Behind Style on Wish; He’s Letting It Crash Into His Own Awkward Sincerity

There’s something deeply funny about an album called Wish. Not “Dreams” or “Visions” or any other word you’d expect to be plastered across a Spotify mood playlist. Just Wish. Small. Scrappy. Half a thought. Which is exactly what makes Freidrich$’s debut so compelling: it refuses to dress itself up as anything bigger than it is.

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Mike Masser’s 5 Is Volatile, Cathartic, and Often Uncomfortable; That’s Why It Matters

After four years away, Mike Masser is back, and apparently the man didn’t spend that time crocheting or birdwatching. No, he made 5, an album that opens the door by kicking it clean off the hinges. This isn’t a polite return to the scene. It’s the kind of record that stomps into your living room,

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Circle the Dream Shows Nom de Plume Truly Comfortable With Restlessness Itself

There’s something inherently funny about an album trying to be both sprawling and intimate. Like, imagine someone handing you a shoebox filled with postcards and saying, “This is the Odyssey.” That’s Circle the Dream. It wants to be a folk record, a prog record, and a diary all at once, and instead of collapsing under

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Nate G Cultivates on Me Myself I, a Self-Produced Dive Into Solitude, Self-Awareness, and the Unbearable Tightness of Being Alone With Your Own Thoughts for More Than Five Minutes

Imagine locking yourself in a dimly lit room. Not for dramatic effect, but because it’s 3AM and turning on the light feels like too much responsibility. That’s the emotional ecosystem Nate G cultivates on me myself i, a self-produced dive into solitude, self-awareness, and the unbearable tightness of being alone with your own thoughts for

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LARJIMAR’s Metro Subterráneo Understands That Melancholy Doesn’t Have to Be Suffocating

LARJIMAR’s Metro Subterráneo is the sort of album that sounds like it should have been just another half-baked SoundCloud experiment. It’s the kind of thing you click on, hear a half-finished beat and some vague crooning, and never return to again. Instead, it lands as a surprisingly coherent, strangely hypnotic project. It takes Afrobeat grooves,

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Codemachia’s “Gladius Æternus” Is Not Just A Concept, It’s A Vision

Do you ever wonder what happens when a musician perfectly executes an idea into an art? Like it just leaves you in awe, wondering how it’s possible to turn a mere idea into something so vast, grand, and epic? Codemachia’s Gladius Æternus is the exact manifestation of that. Gladius Æternus is more than an album,

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Baby T’s 40 isn’t a record built for a season; it’s built to last

Some albums exist purely to be ignored. They fill playlists, soundtrack laundry cycles, and evaporate from memory the moment they end. 40, the new 11-track project from three-time World Entertainment Awards nominee Baby T, is not one of those albums. This is a record that refuses to be background noise. It’s not content with providing

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Shu Lee Made a Dare on Fusion of Colours

Every other week, some indie artist pops up declaring they’ve reinvented music with their laptop and a £10 mic from Gumtree. And usually, it’s fine. Charming, rough around the edges, occasionally surprising, but not exactly the stuff of revolutions. Then along comes Shu Lee, who actually means it. His second album Fusion Of Colours isn’t

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Bank Statements by BobbyBullRun is motivational fuel wrapped in clean beats and sharper business bars

So, you’ve decided to escape the 9-to-5 grind, crush your limiting beliefs, and manifest generational wealth. Congratulations: you’re either about to start your fourth side hustle or you’ve just wandered into the motivational speaker side of YouTube. And right in the middle of that energy vortex sits Bank Statements, a hip-hop album by BobbyBullRun that

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