Reviews
The Weather Does Not Ask Permission: Driek Manders Through Wind and Weather
A Belgian composer maps the pressure systems of the self with piano, strings and rare restraint.
Editor-in-Chief
Giorgio Watanabe
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Thomas Lemmer – Dreamscapes II
An album that understands duration as its true subject. Fourteen pieces shaped by light, memory and the quiet chemistry of attention.
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March Fry’s Cheryl Cole Turns a Crush Into Something Precise
The Los Angeles songwriter opens her debut album cycle with a single that understands heat, humour and the quiet comedy of wanting someone you barely know.
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Witte – Glas und Steine
From a former electrical store near Hamburg, Witte turns the exact measurement of absence into a song of restraint, irony and quiet emotional weight.
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Richard Green – Holey Shoes
A Milan-based multi-instrumentalist with London years behind him turns funk, rock and electronic precision into a track that moves the body while refusing to look away from those left walking on worn soles.
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On Dragon’s Blood, Daniel Higley Turns One Wound into Four Temperatures
On Dragon’s Blood the German producer refuses to write four different songs about divorce. He writes one and then subjects it to successive states of time, space and pressure until the material itself becomes the recovery.
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Daniel Troop Finds His Signal in Wide Open Lies
A young Nottinghamshire songwriter records a garage-born track that treats personal release and class frustration as the same temperature. The result carries more presence than most polished indie of the moment.
Singles
Be My Wife Opens a New Chapter with “Miami Song”
After the meticulous world of the debut cycle, the Paris-based project steps into something more spontaneous and exposed. Glamour and unease share the same temperature.
Features
In Conversation with Lauren DaCruz: Reclaiming the Fire
On the day her debut single arrives, the songwriter who splits her time between El Paso and Burgundy turns a 3:35 AM moment of honesty into a public invitation. “I Want To See Your Fire” is out now and asks to be played loud.
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Tumi Radebe x DJ GRZA: The Quiet Shift in Get To Know Ü
A South African vocalist and an Australian producer meet in the remote north of the country and deliver a single that treats the desire to know someone as honest disorientation rather than conquest.