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Henry Morris Builds an Altar Out of Residue on Kiss Me Extra Hard
On his third solo album, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter treats love as the only substance that still works, even when it requires the same pressure used to prepare everything else.
Pridhvi Sunain Zoro Calls the Go Around on MAHA
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Nancy Ann Puts Her Head on the Shoulder and Leaves the Ghost Behind on Imagination
On her debut EP, the Knoxville writer treats the invention of a rival and the decision to stop measuring as the same continuous weather.
first known use Maps Permanent Yield on Yielding
The Burlington duo’s debut EP treats surrender as a material fact, not a metaphor.
Those Lot Walk When She Calls on She Takes Me There
The London four-piece, with roots in Penzance, set a year of rehearsal and two days at Strongroom to a song that names the cycle of being kept around until needed, and then stays inside it.
Pier Piras Builds a Living Chamber on Nautilus
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Mutant Ego Measures What the Body Can No Longer Confirm on real
Tony Sieber Turns Dusk Into a Groove on Dreaming in Soft Light
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Alex Julia Keeps the Names on Making Friends With My Demons
The Brooklyn artist’s debut album treats the material that arrived after her father’s death as something that can be named, timed, and worked with rather than expelled.
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Nancy Ann Puts Her Head on the Shoulder and Leaves the Ghost Behind on Imagination
Be My Wife Maps the Long Haul of an Unexpected Trip
Those Lot Walk When She Calls on She Takes Me There
M3TIN Builds and Unbuilds the Same House on Das waren wir nie
AI-assistedMr Pigeons Holds the Habitable Distance on Goldilox Zone
colourshop’s Old Man Holds the Seat Until the Memory Does
Pier Piras Builds a Living Chamber on Nautilus
Eternal Mourning Turns Insomnia into a Forced March on Drums Are Beating My Steps
WØLFFE Reclaims the Refrain on Favourite Song
On her new single, the London-based producer and singer turns a stolen hymn into evidence, naming the violence that tried to rewrite her and the moment she sings the original line back.
Pureblast Hit the Exact Window on Prime Time
The Parisian duo time the night’s ritual with surgical precision, from the first lock of the body to the final descent into morning light.
WOOF Charts the Fever of Young Love on Distempered
The Chicago artist’s debut EP treats unstable romance as a nervous-system event, five short tracks that move from summer illusion to the decision to walk away.
colourshop’s Old Man Holds the Seat Until the Memory Does
The Italian-born songwriter records the year after his father’s death with the same care once used to steady a bicycle, then steps back and lets the wheel find its own line.
Mr Pigeons Holds the Habitable Distance on Goldilox Zone
The Eindhoven-based experimental rapper treats the search for a livable condition as a calculated orbit, one that runs through Tower Hamlets streets, digital passivity, African extraction and the quiet of a shared room.
OpusKan’s force Majeure Treats the Body’s Betrayal as an Unforeseeable Event
From Angers, the hybrid project moves into French for the first time and finds the clinical language of multiple sclerosis, the inventory of a suicide and the erased painting of a grandfather all speaking the same dialect of force.
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In Conversation with Oliver Paul: Fear Of Bears Keeps the Light on the Edge of the Night
After Find Your Footing, the East Midlands artist steps into a slower room where the night stays inside the sleeping bag and a voice still carries through the trees.
