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Released today, we have the third single "I Believe" from the forthcoming debut full-length by Brooklyn singer-songwriter Izzy Oram Brown. The latest single follows on from her excellently reviewed EP Mess and a split EP with The Bird Calls and a run opening for the acclaimed guitarist Julian Lage. As a fixture in the Brooklyn indie scene, Izzy Oram Brown has been featured as a collaborator in rising bands such as Why Bonnie and Youbet.
Stepping into her own with her full-length, What I Want is full of unexpected surprises and moments of instrumentation and sound design that go way beyond a singer-songwriter affair. There is a sense that even as the songs on What I Want always foreground an “I,” they are not primarily written for Brown herself. She has the rare ability to crystallize emotional states and broadcast them on the most universal possible scale, both in word and musical DNA, with the invitingness, familiarity, and discipline of radio rock heroes like Tom Petty and the pop acumen and emotional intelligence that galvanizes fans of Phoebe Bridgers and Sabrina Carpenter alike.
It might have already become clear from the description, but these songs are staggeringly beautiful—the kind that quickly silence a small rock club, that nearly any listener who has lived even a small slice of adult life can find an input for. Brown’s cocktail of timeless songwriting influences, lovingly rendered guitar moves, sensitive arrangements, and unabashedly vulnerable writing give What I Want a singular charge. It’s bound to stick long after the personal experiences onto which we may map these songs fade into history.
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It's an ongoing pleasure to feature new music from Chris Pellnat, whether it's a solo release or with The Warp/The Weft where he is a guitarist and to quote him "half of the duo, Teeniest." His new EP 'Reign Down is well worth a listen, there is an overall feel to the collection of songs and yet each track stands on it's own merit with variations in style and instrumentation adding to the depth of this release, we have included both the video releases and the Bandcamp EP, Chris tells us some more below.
"Reign Down" is a six-song EP of folk(ish) rock music with an infusion of vibraphone, clarinet, accordion, etc. "Reign Down" is the title track of the EP - it's a play on words since it's about wanting to be being showered with the "rain" of love. But people also yearn for the "reign" of love, so it works both ways. The varied feelings I was having over the past two years are apparent in this EP: from despair, anger and even fear as evil shows its face in the world, to determination, hope and faith that it will be overcome.
Accessible sound; weirdness intact: I worked on the "Reign Down" EP for the past two years while releasing one-off singles with Arabic and Japanese lyrics /flavor in collaboration with other singers. While I've returned to English lyrics and Western sound, you can be assured my weirdness remains intact. For each of the songs on the EP I created a music video in VR (no AI was used).
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Scottish singer-songwriter Alex Amor today releases her latest single 'Avalanche' a new glimpse of her forthcoming debut album 'Heavenly Bodies' which is out 21st August via New York independent label VERO Music.
The original demo of 'Avalanche' was written and produced by Alex in her childhood bedroom in Glasgow, before bringing it to her "holy trinity" of collaborators in London - Peter Brien (Kojaque, Kean Kavanagh), Baz Kaye (The Blessed Madonna, Obongjayar) and Karma Kid (Jessie Ware, Jalen Ngonda) - to complete the song. Led by layered guitars, gauzy harmonies and sweeping soft-rock arrangements, 'Avalanche' unfolds with a slow-building sense of release. Pairing melodic warmth and muted dream-pop textures with intimate songwriting, Amor documents the clarity that arrives just before a relationship falls apart.
The new single arrives off the back of appearances last month at Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and Footsteps Festival in London.
Speaking on the release of 'Avalanche', Alex Amor said: "Avalanche is about the unsettling moment in a relationship where something has shifted, but only one of you is willing to see it. While you’re starting to recognise it for what it is, the other person is still holding on, almost wilfully ignoring the cracks. The idea of an avalanche felt like the perfect metaphor. It’s not necessarily about destruction, it’s about release. It’s what happens when pressure has been building for too long and can’t be contained anymore. It’s sudden, overwhelming, and sometimes painful, but it clears everything out. And in that aftermath, there’s a kind of clarity - you can finally see things as they really are.”
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Hypnotic is the first in a series of new singles for The Gods They Made, marking a step forward sonically. The track was produced, mixed and mastered by Laurent Lozano at Moon Studios in Vevey. His involvement shaped the sound significantly: tighter, more direct, at the intersection of indie rock and post-punk — the song structures and melodic sensibility of the former, the directness and refusal to soften the edges of the latter.
With Hypnotic, TGTM introduced electronic pads alongside the traditional drum kit, which gives the rhythm section a wider sonic range than on their debut album. Hypnotic opens with a vocal and synth hook, before a word has been sung. No introduction, no build, no context. You're inside the song before even realising it.
The verse arrives next, pulling back from the hook's momentum into something more stripped. The lyrics operate through images and statements rather than narrative – "you know what I know", "fight the real enemy", "what goes around keeps turning". When the full chorus finally comes – "who wants it, who wants it" – it feels both inevitable and earned.
The song earns every section. Nothing overstays, nothing is wasted. The middle eight shifts the track's center of gravity before the final chorus brings everything back, fuller. That's where the title sits: hypnotic as the state you're already in, the cycles that keep turning, the thing you recognize but can't quite shake.
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Sheffield-based Burning Bouquet are an alternative rock band with a sound that blends emo, pop-punk, grunge and indie rock.Taking influence from bands such as Paramore, Holding Absence, Deftones and Don Bronco, the band formed in September 2023 and have been releasing their own material since September 2024, with plans to record an EP in August 2025.
Their line-up consists of vocalist Rachael, bassist Jamie, drummer Archie and exciting new addition Bhavik on guitar, and the past year has seen them deliver several energetic performances on the Sheffield live music scene.
This song is about committing to ending "The Cycle" of generational trauma. Most of the lyrics feature Rachael talking to her younger self, telling her that things will get better and there is light on the other side of her pain.
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As Pomelo, Luke Elliott and Wynnm Murphy make seductive and engaging art-pop that displays evident awareness of its antecedents but feels very much like forward-facing music for today and tomorrow. Loreless is their debut, which was announced in April and which is out in a couple weeks. Today, we're sharing the third single, "Work Phone."
Vulnerable and personal and baked with humanness, Loreless is an album about being. A genuine trip, and if we are living on a shopping strip mall mode towards oblivion, Loreless accesses the tangible magic of the mundane. Paying attention to where you are and not where you will be. The album is raw and careful - the kind that pulls a curtain, applies arnica oil, and tenderises a muscle with a kitchen timer on 60 minutes. It’s listening to an open wound, from this life or the last. Loreless is an honest reckoning with purpose, histories, influences and sad magic that’s cathartic, acknowledged, satisfying.
Pomelo is the Amsterdam-based art pop duo of Wynnm Murphy and Luke Elliott. Together they craft a sonic world of sonar on solid ground, where avant-garde electronic techniques meet watery, resonant textures and sexy storytelling. The duo's debut, Loreless is a hypnotic, kinetic blend of pop, ambient, and electronic music; distinct, otherworldly, and oddly familiar, like an uncanny encounter.
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