Beautiful, anguished and affecting, Stay is an insight into an ever-raging emotional battle: a sublime work that consistently induces chills with its earnest attempts to grasp for self-worth and positivity admist the conflicting gaze of despondency and depression -- pits that linger hungrily at every turn.
Bandcamp / Facebook /Existing in a permanently menacing and intoxicated gloom, 'Ordinary Love' is a long-brewed concoction of anger, frustration and loneliness that roves only along the seediest, most dangerous neon-lit alleyways: discouraged, dispirited, and at a point where it's finally willing to take its drunken chances.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramSmooth and casually seductive, 'Sweetlow' is an arrestingly dulcet debut: an ultra chill collection of languorous, low light allure.
Bandcamp / FacebookWhilst enamouringly vibrant and pretty, delve a little deeper -- beyond the bold, bright and twinkly production -- and the debut from I am Alice also possesses a potent undercurrent of mono no aware: a temporally fragile nostalgia that is intensified by the beautiful, optimistic vocal delivery.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramA stylish, post-apocalyptic nighttime meandering, the first set of tracks from Desert Dollhouse opt to take the scenic route on a drizzly trek across a rebuilt, sleazily exuberant metropolis.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramA sincere, accomplished communication of emotional reverence, the sophomore release from EinarIndra is an expansive, grandly atmospheric force: a richly stirring comprehension of life.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramA generator of daydreams, the magical debut from Dæva is an enchanting contradiction, for whilst, lyrically, it exists in the real world, the production suggests a wondrous weightlessness -- allowing one to fledge from gravity's grasp and float away to a far less-testing version of reality.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramPossessing a striking melodic ease, 'Wide Awake in a Sleep World' is a humble but confidently delivered debut, one that pairs vocal melancholy with determined, unostentatious defiance.
Spotify / Facebook / InstagramCanorous and inviting, the latest from SALFUMÁN is dreamy ear candy: a mellisonant mix of soft, enamouring vocals and stimulating production that one can't help but be willingly swept along with.
Bandcamp / FacebookCharacterised by a wonderfully low-key elegance, 'Careless is a flowing and delicate debut: a becoming collection of intriguing melodies that wind mainly around perfectly maintained manor gardens, but occasionally dart into the dark, sinisterly inviting woods that are situated temptingly adjacent.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramAwash with lonely, drifting, droning soundscapes, 'Poet from the Northern Sea' plays like the accompaniment to a solitary, bittersweet voyage of interstellar exploration: a journey of atmospheric serenity and immense wonder punctuated by a nagging, melancholic awareness of one's inexorable isolation.
Bandcamp / Facebook / InstagramHaunting, ghostly and acutely ominous, 'Young Wild' is a lone human voice now heard only in the very darkest areas of the family home; it's owner retreating from the malevolent demons that prowl the corridors, ever-closing on their target.
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