Music
John Also Bennett: “Nowhere”
Americana badlands vamping up front and arthouse production in back.
Wallace Field: “All Costs”
Wallace Field’s voice reaps a maximal drama from her spare and elegant composition.
TIFFY: “90s Teen Movie”
TIFFY serves up a poppy thriller in our highlighted track “90s Teen Movie.”
Kuedo: “Shadow Dance”
Berlin’s Kuedo is a smooth operator with RnB swag over drum n bass rhythms.
Psalm One x Custom Made: “Cristalle Jr.”
Psalm One (also known as Hologram Kizzie) lifts the shade up on life in Chicago.
Bufo Borealis: “Divino”
The Brazilian ensemble out of São Paulo burns brightly with cool jazz sporting psych notes.
Glenn Jones: “Vade Mecum”
Boston’s Glenn Jones practices a style of guitar dubbed “American Primitive.”
Sessa: “Gostar do Mundo”
Brazilian rhythms percolate through the cool landscapes carved out by São Paulo’s Sessa.
Roméo Poirier: “Porte contre”
Brussels’ Roméo Poirier retains a shadow’s trace of a techno beat on the ethereal “Porte contre”.
Marlowe: “Heist”
Fleet rhymes, double time. Marlowe lets loose over funk samples on “Heist”.
Michał Jan & Immortal Onion: “Digital Relations”
The Polish ensemble behind the Screens LP doesn’t know how experimental it is.
Tongue Love: “Rock Bottom”
Tongue Love bring rollicking rock n roll to their recent EP Rubchinuk.
Sunglaciers: “Avoidance”
The Calgary band delivers bouncy, propulsive darkwave dancehall jams.
Lane: “Vision II”
The thrust is pop, though you’re never quite sure which hook to hang your hat on.
Clamb: “Four Step Ascension”
A prog song that keeps it simple, if you can imagine such a thing.
Mamalarky: “Hero”
A bright, breezy guitar-picking indie rock tune buoyed by off-planet synth sounds.
Zemi17: “In The Softness”
The ambient genre might provide an inroad for gamelan music to get on your playlists.
Carla dal Forno: “Come Around”
Carla dal Forno’s “Come Around” is a spare, minimalist vintage pop hangout song.