Tanya Ransom’s third full length studio album, The Significance of Time, is deeply evocative, blending her signature sound of alt-country and folk with quiet emotional intensity, the album was released yesterday.
Ransom’s vocals radiate both warmth and strength, weaving a delicate yet powerful narrative through all 10 tracks. The album features her all-West Australian creative team, helmed by co-producers James Newhouse (The Waifs, John Butler) on drums, percussion, electric guitars and some bonus backing vocals and Dave Mann adding depth and textures with his work on pedal steel, guitars and backing vocals. Tilly Kelleher accompanies on the vocal harmonies, alongside Tone Bourke (The Waifs, Eskimo Joe) on all things keys (piano, harmonium, rhodes, wurlitzer, synths) and Sam Liddon on Electric and Double Bass.
The finely crafted production reflects a quiet cinematic quality, inviting listeners into Ransom’s deeply personal stories. Exploring themes of grief, war, friendship, death, love, changing of seasons, letting go and trust. Woven together with the concept of significant moments in time. The album features Tanya’s latest single ‘Winter Song’ which earned a finalist position and was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Americana Category, in the International Songwriting Competition.
With over 15 years of experience on the Australian touring circuit, two previous independent albums and her last EP release, Ransom has captivated audiences from intimate venues to major festivals, sharing stages with icons like Missy Higgins, John Butler and Boy and Bear. Her ability to weave raw emotion into her lyrics and deliver them with authenticity has drawn praise from music reviewers and audiences alike.
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With a voice timeless and true, Toronto singer-songwriter Clela Errington releases her second single, “Standing on the Platform.” Following closely on the heels of her excellent first single, “Full Moon Dark Time,” the new one is also drawn from the upcoming Walkin’ Each Other Home, Errington’s fifth studio album to date.
“Standing on the Platform” is a contemporary folk ballad written and performed by Errington. With cinematic scope and a reflective heart, it’s rooted in folk tradition, but carries jazz and blues sensibilities in Errington’s phrasing and harmonic openness.
Her warm, unhurried vocals float over acoustic guitar, piano, and subtle percussion, creating a quiet power and sense of anticipation — like standing at the threshold of change. The soft but insistent beat of brushes on the snare drum perfectly conveys the easy click-clack of the train's steel wheels as they run on the rails.
Errington's song echoes the spirit and tradition of Gospel train songs like The Impressions' "People Get Ready," Elizabeth Cotton's "Freight Train," and Woody Guthrie's "Bound for Glory." Like those eternal classics, "Standing on the Platform" gently suggests that the tracks are heading, slowly but surely, toward a promised land of peace and light.
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"From the Dojo right onstage" the Landesspiegel recently wrote about Katy Broder. A fitting description, one might add – after all, the Liechtensteiner is also known as the coach of her country’s national karate team. With them, she competed at the European and World Championships this summer.
But things are also going well for Katy Broder as a musician: her last single “Gravitate To Me” was played on radio stations all over the world. In Switzerland, it was featured on the playlists of many relevant indie stations and was even praised by the French blog and radio LrDr as the “discovery of the week.”
On September 26, 2025, Katy Broder is following up: after just a few bars of the new anthemic single “Could it be you”, one is reminded of Roxette, Pink, or Avril Lavigne. At the same time, she manages to infuse the sound with contemporary flair. We think it’s another strong taste of the album, which will be released this fall!
Katherine “Katy” Broder (born November 8, 1973 in Chur) is a Swiss karateka, manager, and singer-songwriter based in Liechtenstein. She founded the Shotokan Karate Club Vaduz and, since 2025, has been president of the Karate Federation of the European Small States.
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It all began 15 years ago, in a scene worthy of a Wes Anderson film: Nouvelle Vague was performing in a pastel-colored, retro-style seaside town in Turkey. During the show, a fan stole one of Mélanie Pain’s shoes right off her foot on stage. A few weeks later, she received a package containing the shoe, an apology note, some Turkish delight... and a CD of Turkish music. That unexpected gift sparked her curiosity — and a lasting affection for Turkish culture. Since then, the idea of covering a song in Turkish never left her.
In early 2025, her friend Aslan, a French teacher in Istanbul, sent her “Senden Daha Güzel”, a rock anthem by the legendary band Duman. The song instantly reignited Mélanie’s desire to take on the challenge of singing in Turkish. As Melanie explains:
“This song reminds me of the grunge music from my teenage years — Nirvana, Pearl Jam... I wanted to interpret it in my own way, with softness and poetry. Singing in Turkish was a real challenge, but I was fascinated by the rhythm of the language. I loved it so much, I’m already working on more Turkish covers.”
Far from the raw energy and distorted guitars of the original, Mélanie offers an intimate and sensual rendition, carried by hypnotic bass, soft percussion, and sun-drenched fingerpicked guitar. And the cherry on top: a French version titled Aussi belle que toi, written by Mélanie herself, appears as the B-side of the single — a retro and elegant nod to the golden era of yéyé singers and 45s. Turkish and French versions below.
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Helsinki-based dreampop duo Eidetic Dreams already has a foot in the door of international indie recognition. Their previous single The Truth About My Fall was featured on Spotify’s global Fresh Finds playlist with over 1.2 million followers, and the band has been highlighted in Soundi as well as chosen as a YleX Nosteessa artist.
On Wednesday (September 24) Eidetic Dreams released their fourth single Spin—just one day before their appearance at Tampere’s Lost In Music festival. Spin reveals a lighter yet more guitar-driven side of the duo, centered around a bright Johnny Marr–inspired riff that brings fresh energy and pushes their sound into new territory.
Eidetic Dreams was formed in Helsinki when vocalist-songwriter Siiri Kähönen and guitarist-producer Antti Heikkilä began making music together. Kähönen’s delicate yet intense vocals and Heikkilä’s melodic guitar quickly found a common ground, complemented by modern production and electronic elements. The band’s name refers to vivid, lasting memories—exactly the kind of moods they aim to evoke with their music.
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