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Candi Carpenter's story begins in a world of gospel music and evangelical Christianity. Raised in a pastor's family, Carpenter grew up performing with their family's gospel band and traveling throughout the Midwest. Music was not simply an early career choice. It was part of the environment that shaped their understanding of identity, community, morality, and belonging. Years later, those experiences have become some of the most important raw material in Carpenter's art. Thei

Electronic project mokroïé, the multidisciplinary creation of composer and producer Francesco Virgilio, explores existence, mortality, adolescence and loss on new EP ‘Unanswered’, a four-track journey accompanied by a series of cinematic films. Blending progressive electronics, organic instrumentation and psychedelic textures, Unanswered moves between the infinite scale of the cosmos and the intimate complexities of human emotion. Rather than offering definitive answers, the

Arbor takes its title seriously. Wazzara's fourth release is structured around ideas of rootedness, buried memory and renewal, and its music repeatedly enacts those concepts rather than merely illustrating them. Riffs emerge slowly from dense textures, melodies are partially obscured before returning with greater force, and moments of apparent stillness carry the latent threat of another eruption. The album's seven tracks therefore operate less as discrete songs than as inter

There is something refreshingly old-fashioned about Villain. Not in its sound, which is deliberately eclectic, but in its belief that an album can still function as a complete piece of storytelling. Talon David approaches the project less like a collection of singles and more like a manuscript, giving each song a role in a larger narrative about anger, grief, loneliness, rejection, self-discovery, and finally freedom. The result is an ambitious alt-pop and neo-soul record tha

Songs From The Sun feels like a record built around movement. Its songs travel from roaring guitars to quiet reflection, from intimate observations to moments that seem designed to fill the biggest room in the house. Joe Osgood anchors the album with direct, emotionally open songwriting, while The Fathers of Light provide the scale. “All You Good People” rises immediately, its guitars and rhythms creating an expansive opening statement. From there, the album continually shift

Montreal singer-songwriter Scott Cook has announced his new album Guy Fawkes Day, 1947, a seven-song set that blends indie rock, indie folk and singer-songwriter music with a jazz-influenced harmonic approach. It is a pretty wide musical palette, but Cook keeps the focus firmly on the songs, writing about the people, situations and everyday details happening around him. The album is informed by some heavyweight influences, including David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd,

The best albums are often the ones that sound like nothing else. Scizzorman's new concept album, "How To Get Your Life Right With What's Left," is one of those albums. It is a seven-track trip through funk, glam, psychedelia, stoner rock, and beyond, and it sounds like a band that has finally found its voice. The Australian outfit formed in late 2024 after a post-pandemic hiatus and a lingering case of writer's block. That period of silence has clearly paid off. The songs on

UK-born American pop artist Nick Hissom, aka Hizzy, enters his most unapologetic era yet with new five-track EP ** Hot Boy Things **, turning the aftermath of a highly publicised breakup into a celebration of sex, spectacle and newfound freedom. Blending early-2000s pop with European dance music and American club production, the project marks Hissom’s reintroduction as an openly gay artist operating without the relationship and societal constraints he says previously surround

Lily Franc's The Fitting Room is the kind of debut that understands growing up is rarely as straightforward as it looks from the outside. Across six songs, the 21-year-old Dutch singer-songwriter turns the uncertainty of early adulthood into a colourful, emotionally observant collection about identity, expectation, heartbreak and learning when to let go. There is a conceptual thread running through the entire project, with each song representing a different version of the sel

There is an appealing sense of emotional disorder running through The Reach, the debut EP from Dutch alternative indie rock outfit After Eight. Across five songs, the band construct a world where tenderness and turbulence occupy the same room, where guitars can sound both abrasive and strangely comforting, and where vulnerability becomes something to be examined rather than concealed. Their palette is deliberately broad, drawing from alternative and indie rock while allowing

There is a deliberate sense of occasion to Atticus Roness' Rock 'N' Roll Hit Parade. The album arrives not simply as another release, but as the culmination of a creative process that began taking shape in 2021 and developed into recording sessions in 2026. That history matters because the finished record has the coherence of a long-considered statement. Across 13 songs, Roness presents a personal interpretation of rock music's enduring traditions, one that values melody as m

There is something inherently rock and roll about refusing to behave as though the world is ending, even when the evidence suggests otherwise. New Jersey alternative rock band Red Head Redemption embraces that contradiction on Sunny With A Chance Of Fallout, an EP that turns social anxiety, political unease, and existential dread into something energetic, irreverent, and strangely life affirming. Their self-described "End of the World Rock" is less concerned with predicting c

There are albums that ask to be heard, and there are albums that ask to be entered. Elizabeth Perran’s February belongs to the latter. Its songs seem to exist somewhere just beyond ordinary time, in rooms after everyone has gone home, on trains moving through the city at night, in memories that return without warning. Listening to it feels like walking through a familiar place and suddenly recognising that something has changed. Perran never quite tells us what to feel. Inste

Fate Envoy’s The Tower begins with a question rather than an answer. Across nine songs and just under 36 minutes, the Highland, New York quartet turns alternative rock into a journey through uncertainty, collapse, isolation and, eventually, connection. The Tarot framework might sound like an elaborate conceptual conceit on paper, but the interesting part is that Fate Envoy did not build the album around the cards. The cards were discovered inside songs that already existed, g

For Chris Arthur, becoming a songwriter was less a career decision than an act of necessity. After a relationship collapsed, the Buffalo-born musician found himself searching for a way to process the emotional aftermath. The answer came through songs, arriving quickly enough that Arthur began capturing them as voice memos and sending the recordings to friends. There was no grand plan behind them, only the need to get something out of his head and into the world. That instinct

There is something profoundly moving about an artist who has spent years honing their craft in the margins, performing in rock and hip-hop bands while maintaining a parallel career as a classical cellist, working as a Walt Disney Imagineer while creating immersive installations across Asia, and all the while quietly writing songs that would eventually become a debut album of remarkable depth and maturity. Dolce Wang's Any Other Way is precisely such a work, a collection of tw

There is a moment on Bear Bolton's debut album "Time To Revive" that stops you in your tracks. It comes during "Sentivo solo la pioggia," a Italian-language track that stands as one of the most honest and heartbreaking reflections on postnatal depression ever committed to record. The lyric cuts deep: "The only person I'd ever lost and wanted back was me." It is a line that encapsulates the entire album's central theme, the long and difficult journey toward self-acceptance and

Photo credit: Natalie Roberson Photography At just 18 years old, Tristan Roberson is already making the kind of country music that suggests an artist far further into his career. His sophomore album, Down For The Ride, is a confident fourteen-track collection that balances the traditions of Texas country with contemporary polish, capturing all the romance, recklessness, uncertainty and possibility that come with figuring out adulthood in real time. Produced by Tre Nagella and

International pop singer, television personality and entertainer Reggie Benjamin has returned with one of the most personal and ambitious releases of his career, unveiling his new eight-track album Harmony In Blue: The Duets. Led by a heartfelt new interpretation of ‘I Just Wanna Be Your Everything’, the album sees Benjamin revisit a selection of beloved classics alongside an eclectic cast of collaborators from music, television and film, celebrating the enduring power of gre

Fringe Frontier's Criminal Hour is an album that wears its influences with confidence while refusing to be confined by them. The songwriting partnership of John Lloyd and Jerry Thomas draws together the urgency of garage rock, the shimmer of shoegaze, the directness of punk and the expansive storytelling of Americana into a record that feels both familiar and strikingly individual. Across eight tightly constructed songs, the duo present an assured collection that balances imm