Timeless and majestic, Riley Pinkerton possesses an aura of authoritative and transcendent sophistication on her debut record: a slow-burning but ultimately intoxicating incense worn with an unaffected confidence and calculated restraint.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramStartlingly honest and self-aware, the debut from Benedict Benjamin is a lyrically astute collection of inwardly directed chastisement and regret: a self-imposed intervention inducing a mix of painful lucidity and dreamlike detachment.
Bandcamp / FacebookConsummately controlled, 'Songs' is a deliberately paced work of evocative splendour, mesmerically inducing long periods of solitary quiescence with its gentle, evenly-reflective dawn and dusk strolls.
Bandcamp / FacebookExisting as a dark, lonely and dominant sadness, 'villages' is the soundtrack to a tastefully cinematic sepulchral reverie: an overcast period of mourning for an unexpected loss that weighs heavily on the soul.
Bandcamp / TwitterSoulful and unhurried, the eponymous debut from Nightingail near crackles with masterfully engendered nostalgia, framing its romanticised tales as hand-cranked video recordings redolent of simpler times long passed.
Noisetrade / FacebookVocally vibrant and sonically engrossing, 'Illumine' exists on a stark and uncluttered canvas, much of its sadness and longing painted with clean brush strokes -- some unusually bright in shade, others conspicuous simply by their wonderfully flowing nature.
Bandcamp / FacebookImbued with an unostentatiously communicated disillusionment, 'Honest' is a melancholy traversal from one inevitably lonely road to another, searching with forlorn hope for anything that might make the increasing uncertainty and sadness of life's greater journey worthwhile.
Bandcamp / FacebookA mature rendering of tortured hope, the debut from Redfox haunts on the frigid air of a winter forest, determinedly focussed on imperfect pasts and alternate presents: the wandering remnants of a lost soul, yearning for resolution.
Bandcamp / FacebookVivid and hypnotic, 'The Descent' is a despairing and anguished production delivered with sincere solemnity from the dark, lonely tumult of life's determinedly oppressive stage.
Bandcamp / FacebookUnderstated and tender, 'Patterns' is the loving, protective arm that attempts to quell suddenly mounting disquiet: the kind triggered by a brooding fixation on the lack of acknowledgement offered to time as it passes, eternally unabated, past the living room window.
Bandcamp / FacebookRemarkably sincere, 'Tides' is residual energy forever playing out scenes of deep personal sadness, watched through mournful, tear-sodden eyes that apprehensively await the heart's courageous acceptance of the fact it's finally time to look away.
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