Author: turuchi

Some albums ask to be heard. Others ask to be entered. Elizabeth Perran’s debut February belongs firmly in the second category, unfolding like a collection of half-remembered places, late-night journeys and lives observed through a window. Across its songs, Perran explores loneliness, ageing, memory, identity and survival without offering easy answers, creating a record that feels intimate one moment and quietly unsettling the next. There is a literary quality to February, but it never feels distant or overly intellectual. Perran has a remarkable ability to take small details and let them carry enormous emotional weight. A train, an empty room,…

There is something powerful about the moment when an artist stops thinking of music as a collection of songs and starts treating it as a world of its own. For Swedish artist Lovisa Altin, that idea sits at the heart of everything she is building. A singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and storyteller, Altin has created an artistic universe where music, movement, visuals and narrative can exist as parts of one much larger story. Her latest release, ‘The End of the World’, is where that journey begins. A cinematic reimagining of the classic song written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee,…

There is a difference between making music and building an identity around it. For Cece, that distinction has shaped a career spent moving comfortably between songwriting, production, performance, creative direction and entrepreneurship. Now, with the official music video for her latest single ‘One of One’, she brings all of those experiences into sharper focus. Born in Nigeria and raised in the Bronx, New York, Cece, also known as Big Cece, discovered her creative voice through poetry, writing and freestyle rap before expanding her world through piano, dance, theatre and music production. Those early experiences gave her more than a foundation…

There is something strangely compelling about imagining a future through the technology of the past. Max MacReady have built an entire musical world around that contradiction, somewhere between forgotten analogue machinery, neon-lit spaceports and the cold glow of a science fiction transmission. With their new single ‘The Hunt’, the UK duo push further into that universe, exploring pursuit, desire, mixed signals and the uncomfortable space between genuine connection and imagined possibility. Arriving August 13, ‘The Hunt’ combines darkwave, synthwave, electronic music and post-punk with a distinctly cinematic atmosphere. The track feels as though it has travelled backwards from a future…

Some albums follow a straight line. Scizzorman prefer to take the scenic route, disappear down a strange side road and return with something you were not expecting. The Australian alternative funk-rock and psychedelic outfit make their return with How To Get Your Life Right With What’s Left, a seven-track concept album that throws funk, glam, psychedelia, stoner rock, swamp blues and retro grooves into the same colourful melting pot. The album arrives after a post-pandemic break and a period of writer’s block, but there is little evidence of creative hesitation in the finished record. Across just over 30 minutes, Scizzorman…

Brooklyn-based, Budapest-born songwriter Atticus Kane returns with ‘Love Me Not’, a fast-paced indie rock single that turns a deeply personal experience of immigration and belonging into a sharp reflection on what it means to be American. The song was sparked by an unlikely source: a series of political robocalls from a Florida politician running on an aggressively anti-immigrant platform. Having previously lived in Miami, Kane found himself confronting a contradiction that felt impossible to ignore. How can a country shaped so deeply by generations of immigrants continue to argue over who truly belongs? That question gives ‘Love Me Not’ its…

There is something timeless about returning to a song years after it was first written and suddenly hearing possibilities that were invisible the first time around. For Carpe Diem, that process sits at the heart of “Oh Yeah Let’s DateBack,” a track that carries the spirit of an earlier creative chapter while finding its place in the duo’s evolving musical world. Built around Spanish guitar, expressive vocals and playful percussion, the song turns nostalgia into something warmer and more physical. Its Latin-inspired character gives the track a sense of movement, while the contrast between Keith’s guitar and Ada’s soaring vocals…

New York has a way of leaving fingerprints on the music made within it. For THROES NYC, that influence runs deeper than a reference to a particular era or sound. It lives in the restless energy of the city, the intimacy of late-night journeys, the excitement of discovering a band before everyone else knows their name, and the feeling of being surrounded by noise while finding one small moment that makes everything else disappear. That spirit runs through The Wires Out, an EP shaped by romantic infatuation, uncertainty, tenderness and the complicated intensity of falling for someone. What began as…

For Connor Riesen, music has never been about staying in one place. His journey has moved through electronic production, jazz, piano arrangements, classical influences and collaborative songwriting, with each project adding another layer to an artist still discovering what he is capable of. Now, with Beginnings, Vol. 3, that constant curiosity has led him somewhere more personal, more experimental and arguably more confident than ever before. The third chapter of the Beginnings series finds Riesen stepping further into the music himself. He taught himself guitar by ear specifically for the project, playing both electric and acoustic guitar while also taking…

Some guitar pieces feel like compositions. Others feel like places you have somehow wandered into. Martin Lloyd Howard’s “Highland Mist” belongs firmly in the latter category, creating the sensation of moving through a rugged landscape where beauty and mystery exist side by side. Built around the distinctive resonance of DADGAD tuning, the piece finds its character in unexpected melodies, wide melodic leaps and a sombre atmosphere that leaves plenty of room for the listener’s imagination. What makes Howard’s work particularly compelling is the musical journey behind that sound. A classically trained guitarist with a curiosity that has taken him through…