Dutch singer-songwriter Celine Cairo this week releases her third studio album Panacea. Having amassed of 45 million streams and a devoted international following, Celine Cairo forges her own path. Entirely independent and supported by a close-knit circle of music collaborators, the spirit of creative freedom is at the heart of her new record. Made the way Celine has always worked - on her own terms - it was recorded over nearly two years between partner and co-producer Benjamin Rheinländer's studio outside Amsterdam and a handful of spaces across the country, with contributions from band members, songwriters and musicians drawn from a small circle of trusted friends. The result is a collection of songs that could only be intimate, unhurried and entirely her own.
A meditation on growth, surrender and truly feeling alive, it was created during a period of real personal change, tracing a journey toward hard-won acceptance and the unexpected lightness that comes with it. Panacea means "a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases", a title that captures both the album's searching quality and its profound sense of release.
Celine Cairo: "Panacea reflects on the paradox of our endless search for happiness. The harder we try to 'heal' and better ourselves, the farther we find ourselves from inner peace. I've struggled with depression and anxiety my whole adult life, and in recent years found relief in letting go of that insatiable search for happiness and peace. I hope these songs bring some compassion and a sense of relief to listeners - that we are enough, and that the idea that there's something inherently wrong with us is simply not true."
The title track announced the album's arrival in powerful fashion earlier this year as a hopeful meditation on self-acceptance, recorded on Wurlitzer piano at her Amsterdam home with her partner and brought to life with strings played by India Bourne of Ben Howard's band. The haunting 'Cycles' follows a similar emotional thread, finding calm in life's recurring patterns and the quiet wisdom that comes with learning to accept rather than resist, while the album's focus track 'Feel' draws on a similar alt-pop sound reminiscent of a downtempo 90s sound.
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Award-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Kate Schutt shares “Sippin’ On Sunshine,” a warm and radiant new single that transforms emotional connection into pure sensory bliss. Blending adult contemporary songwriting with breezy pop melodies and subtle vocal jazz textures, the track captures the feeling of being so fully lit up by another person that language itself struggles to keep pace.
Written while immersed in the creation of an entirely different project centered on the Arctic, “Sippin’ On Sunshine” arrived unexpectedly. “This was one of those gifts from the muse that we songwriters sometimes get,” Kate explains. At the time, she was deep into research and songwriting inspired by her trips to the Arctic and the history of Polar exploration, surrounded creatively by “ice and snow and flinty skies.” In contrast, one phrase suddenly surfaced: “Sippin’ On Sunshine.”
“I suppose I was craving some warmth,” Kate says. “The whole song revolves around this one simile. The experience of being so madly, joyfully in love that language is left reaching for comparisons, ‘Your kiss… it’s like Sippin’ On Sunshine.’” The result is a track that feels buoyant and deeply sincere, balancing lightness with emotional intimacy. Built around glowing melodies and Kate’s unmistakably clear vocal delivery, “Sippin’ On Sunshine” leans into warmth without losing its sophistication. There’s an effortless quality to the songwriting, but beneath it sits a careful attention to detail and craft.
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'Missing Bernadette' is the brand new track from Brussels-based The Bernadette Maries. This track is the third single from their debut album "Soft," due out on September 18th via Géographie. From the first notes of “Missing B.”, the Bernadette Maries transport us to the misty British soundscapes of the '90s, reminiscent of Slowdive and The Stone Roses.
After boldly blending shoegaze and drum & bass in “ESO”, the Brussels-based band unveils a new single that still drifts through dreamlike realms, while grounding its music with heavy guitars echoing the most anthemic choruses of Smashing Pumpkins or Deftones. It’s a way of connecting the memory of loved ones to the present, keeping your head in the clouds while feeling the rest of your body pierced by a complex emotion—somewhere between melancholy and deep gratitude.
As mentioned before on Beehive Candy The Bernadette Maries is a band from Brussels, established in 2024, with members Daria, Guy & Romain. Their sound merges post-punk energy, shoegaze’s dreamy textures, and indie rock hooks. TBM’s music is about love and existentialism, melancholy & meaning of our lives in a world that is slowly falling apart. It is inspired not only by music, but society, books, and movies as well.
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London’s Dogviolet announce their anticipated debut EP Wilting, and share the evocative new single ‘Daughter’ (June 18th). A gritty and evocative blend of the band's ethereal-grunge meets post-punk aesthetics, the single captures both a driving sense of energy contrasted against their ethereal tendencies.
Produced by the band’s own Ella Patenall, recorded and mixed alongside Tom Hill (GENN, Pollyanna, Knuckledust, I Feel Fine), ‘Daughter’ showcases the more immediate, intense and raw side to Dogviolet’s sound. Born out of the pressures of being the eldest daughter in a family, the track uses its angst to drive a soundscape of biting guitar tones, punching drums and Naz Toorabally vocals which move between the floating verses and a more visceral, pointer chorus delivery.
Speaking about the single, Naz and Ella explain: Naz: “Daughter is about wanting to break the cycle of generational trauma and resist the eldest daughter compulsion to hold our families together, but not being quite ready to let go of control. When you’re in the throes of your perceived duties as an eldest daughter, you become delusional. Like believing you’re the sun and water for your family, that without you they would wilt and eventually die. And so you keep smiling and justify the chronic anxiety, exhaustion and constant choosing between your happiness and theirs.”
Ella: “Daughter is our loudest and most cathartic song. It’s the one we end the set with, crank all pedals on and go a bit wild. Capturing that energy in the studio was really important to us, so we let ourselves have fun with it. We were picking up every guitar in the studio and stacking layers to get that wall‑of‑sound feeling. I also threw an e-bow part into the final chorus for extra lift. We weren’t sure it would work, but it really did!”
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England's South Coast alt-rockers The Surge return with their latest single, "See Your Face", out now and taken from their forthcoming album Meow. Blending the band's trademark heavy, tightly-crafted sound with sharp lyrical observations, "See Your Face" explores how even the smallest misunderstanding can spiral into something much bigger than it ever needed to be. At its heart, the song is a reminder that communication remains the key to any healthy relationship.
The band explains: "See Your Face is about how even a small misunderstanding in a relationship can create a big problem. Things are often blown out of proportion and could easily be sorted out if we all had the patience to communicate and understand each other. Don't let things fester, life is too short."
Driven by powerful riffs, infectious energy and relatable themes, "See Your Face" continues The Surge's knack for pairing social observations with memorable hooks. The track offers another glimpse into Meow, an album set to showcase the band's evolving songwriting while retaining the raw energy that has become their calling card.
Hailing from across the Hampshire and Dorset border, The Surge have spent recent years building a reputation as one of the South Coast's most exciting independent rock acts. Their debut album Amped arrived in 2023, while a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the 2024 Original Music Awards highlighted their growing profile on the UK independent music scene.
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Oslo-based singer/songwriter and composer Resa Saffa Park today unveils new single 'Love Is a Lonely Feeling'. Born in Dubai, with her musical upbringing rooted in Liverpool (Resa is a graduate of LIPA), and now based in Oslo - Resa Saffa Park's work pulls from jazz, soul, indie and noir-pop in equal measure - drawing influence from artists as varied as Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Mitski, Julia Jacklin and Nirvana, while sitting somewhere in the orbit of Tamino, Michelle Gurevich and Portishead.
New single 'Love Is a Lonely Feeling' traces a fallout with her own artistry, through picked acoustic guitar, feathered drums and jazzy keys. Speaking more on its release, Resa Saffa Park shared: "Love Is a Lonely Feeling is my heartbreak song about my relationship with music. For a long time, the love I had for creating didn’t feel strong enough to break the silence I felt in return. A quiet, one sided devotion. I felt lonely in my artistry, and I slowly started falling out of love with music, losing trust in my own intuition. The biggest loss was not knowing when my spark faded, or where it went."
Following the release of her independently-released debut full length 'Silver Bead Eyes' in 2025, Resa has cultivated a devoted international audience, with sold out headline shows across Turkey and further live dates spanning Stockholm, Milan, Paris, Copenhagen and London.
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Winnipeg indie band, sundayclub, return with new single, “Sad Summer,” the latest preview of their forthcoming self-titled debut album, SUNDAYCLUB, arriving July 10 via Paper Bag Records.
Built around a simple guitar riff that would go on to define the band's sound, “Sad Summer” captures a feeling of emotional paralysis familiar to many: wanting to retreat from the world while feeling increasingly pressured to keep pace with it. Blending hazy indie rock, shoegaze textures and deeply personal songwriting, the track finds sundayclub at their most direct and emotionally exposed.
Written during a period of social withdrawal and creative frustration, “Sad Summer” began as a stream of unfiltered thoughts before evolving into one of the emotional cornerstones of the album. “‘Sad Summer’ came about as a result of feeling extremely unmotivated, both to create and to socialise,” explains vocalist Courtney Carmichael. “The chorus just kept repeating itself: ‘Sad summer, it's a sad summer.’ Everything about the song felt candid because we didn't shy away from exposing that inner dialogue of feeling tired, down and disconnected. There's something freeing about being that direct.”
The band leaned into that honesty throughout the production, incorporating phone calls and conversational fragments beneath the track's warm guitars and blurred textures, creating a song that feels simultaneously intimate and expansive.
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