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Cover art credit: Giacomo Cambria Following chart success across Europe and releases on some of dance music's premier record labels, internationally supported producer DJ Sparadise has officially unveiled his vibrant new collaboration with singer-songwriter ANI, titled ‘See U Again.’ An uplifting summer anthem that seamlessly blends contagious dancefloor energy with a crystalline pop melody, ‘See U Again’ bottles the bittersweet anticipation of reconnecting with someone after

Some dreams are abandoned. Others simply refuse to leave. On ‘Evergreen’, Steve Stinson explores the passions that survive careers, responsibilities and changing circumstances, the things pushed aside by life but still waiting when we eventually return to them. For Stinson, that constant has been music. Born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, raised between the United States and Australia and now based in Papua New Guinea, his life has involved considerable movement and reinvention. So

Jealousy rarely arrives with dignity. It makes comparison irresistible, turns strangers into competition and has an unpleasant habit of convincing you that somebody else possesses everything you lack. On ‘Lose’, Clarity Liao doesn't attempt to make that feeling prettier than it is. She does, however, make it surprisingly fun to listen to. The focus single from forthcoming debut EP Dear…, ‘Lose’ finds the emerging singer-songwriter confronting the possibility that somebody she

There is something particularly fitting about “Love Me Not” being born from a robocall. In the hands of Atticus Kane, an aggressively banal fragment of modern political life becomes the spark for a song about identity, immigration and the complicated business of loving a country that can make you feel like an outsider. The result is a brisk, guitar-driven piece that wears its political concerns lightly while allowing them to deepen with every listen. Kane’s biography gives th

Dead Horse have always seemed comfortable making listeners uncomfortable, but ‘I Would Die’ finds the London trio approaching unease from an unexpected direction. Rather than leaning heavily on the surreal humour and absurdity that have characterised much of their work, they turn towards something potentially even more dangerous: complete sincerity. The latest preview of debut album Caught The Nonsense, due 11 September via Sister 9 Records, is ostensibly a love song. In Dead

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

“The Intangible Man” begins from an idea that is both simple and quietly unnerving: what happens to a person after they are no longer here to contradict the versions of them that survive? Melody Briar turns that question into an elegy with an unusually philosophical cast. The song is rooted in personal grief, but it is less a diary entry than an examination of how memory behaves under pressure. Its subject is not simply death, but the peculiar afterlife of personality. Briar

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

Max Macready’s new single ‘The Hunt’ feels like a transmission arriving from somewhere just beyond our own timeline. The UK duo combine synthwave, darkwave, electronic and post-punk into a sound that feels cinematic without losing its sense of urgency. From the first moments, there is a strong impression of neon streets, distant machinery and radio signals travelling through the darkness. The track’s greatest strength is its atmosphere. Max Macready builds the foundation with

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

NOAH wastes no time getting to the point on ‘MOVE YA BODY’. Built around infectious rhythms, an instantly memorable chant and a collision of Brazilian funk, amapiano, gqom and EDM-pop, the rising artist's latest single is an uncomplicated invitation to forget everything else and dance. Born in London, raised in Ethiopia and now based back in the UK capital, NOAH brings a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to his music. African influences sit naturally alongside contemporary