Three really notable and beautiful songs from singer-songwriter Edwina van Kuyk who returns with her most personal project to date, Feels So Right, a three-track EP that traces the journey of learning to let go, trust your gut, and find beauty in life’s chaos. The EP arrived yesterday October 28 on all streaming platforms, and is really worth a listen to as far as Beehive Candy are concerned (and we are!).
Rooted in themes of surrender, friendship, and self-trust, Feels So Right captures van Kuyk’s evolution as both an artist and a person. “Life doesn’t always make sense,” she shares. “But when something feels right, you have to go with it.” The EP is sonically rich and emotionally grounded — a fusion of nostalgic vocals, soulful grooves, and radiant melodies. Each track carries a warmth and polish resulting in a sound that glows with both vulnerability and confidence.
The opening track, “Tailspin” sets the tone for the EP an exploration of surrender and acceptance. Using the metaphor of an aircraft spinning out of control, the song turns chaos into catharsis, embracing uncertainty rather than resisting it. “Never Not To Know Each Other Again” follows with a heartfelt tribute to transformative friendship and loss. Written about three close friends she met at a songwriting retreat, the song honors van Kuyk’s late friend Anouk, whose creativity and warmth deeply shaped her artistic outlook. “Anouk taught me to trust my gut and believe in my music,” van Kuyk reflects. “This song is about how strangers can become family and leave a mark that changes your life forever.”
The title track, “Feels So Right” closes the EP with a message of confidence and creative freedom. It’s an anthem about tuning out external opinions and creating from intuition. “I’ve spent years listening to other people’s opinions,” says van Kuyk. “Now I just want to make music that feels right to me.”
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London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe today announces her debut album 'Move On With The Year', out 6th February 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records. To mark the announcement, Alice is today sharing the album's title track 'Move On With The Year'.
Produced by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, LUMP, Anna B Savage) in his Margate studio, Alice Costelloe’s long-awaited debut solo album is a document of creative detangling and emotional repair; a fragile, fearless piece of art-pop that dismantles the noise of her past and rebuilds something startlingly intimate in its place.
Moving beyond the cool precision of her indie-rock roots, she and Lindsay shape a world of mellotron drones, fluttering flutes, warped synths and stumbling pianos - drawing influence from the work of Feist, Cate Le Bon, and Andy Shauf. Lead single 'Move On With The Year' acts as the album’s quiet manifesto - written through a series of “happy accidents” as Costelloe taught herself new instruments and followed instinct over perfection. Built around a looping piano motif and breathy woodwind lines, it captures the feeling of learning to live again through a love that doesn’t heal cleanly.
“Though it breaks my heart / to be so far,” she sings, “I move on with the year” - a refrain that feels both like a mantra and a wound. Elsewhere, she’s unflinching: “Tell your kids there’s nothing they can do / when you’re on that junk there is no getting through.” It’s familial grief rendered without sentimentality - just clarity, and an instinct for melody that makes the pain feel almost serene.
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Murkage Dave makes his striking return with ‘Swordfight In A Chicken Shop’, a vivid new single that captures the chaos and confusion of modern life. Produced by Tim London (Young Fathers), the track features vocals from Kayus Bankole (Young Fathers), Ellery James Roberts (WU LYF) and Lauren Auder, as well as Bournemouth Hope Youth Choir. The track comes alongside the announcement of headline shows in London and Manchester.
Driven by a brooding, pulsating rhythm, ‘Swordfight In A Chicken Shop’ mirrors the cacophony of everyday existence. In the song’s haunting chorus, Dave trades lines with a children’s choir chanting his name, questioning his state of mind. It’s both satirical and sincere, a snapshot of millennial struggle, battling intertwinning pillars of information overload, the horrors of the timeline and the broken social contract millennials have to navigate.
Of the track, Dave says: “It’s a song about what my life is like. In the street and on my phone. The promise of the nineties and the noughties never came true. But yet I’m still compelled to play the game.”
Beyond his songwriting, Murkage Dave continues to shape culture as a tastemaker. His Refuge Worldwide radio show, ‘The Outlet’, reconnects him with his DJ roots, blending his influences and unreleased songs from friends and collaborators. This instinct for curation has long defined him: from his cult Manchester club night Murkage Club, to Tonga, the raucous touring party he co-founded with friend and collaborator Mike Skinner.
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Today, songwriter & harpist Moriah Bailey releases Live at Factory Obscura, a double single featuring full-band, live versions of "A Late Spring" and "The Ocean Life" from her 2022 release, i tried words. Recorded at the immersive artspace in OKC for their tour homecoming on June 13, Live at Factory Obscura offers renditions of each song fine-tuned on tour.
“When I played solo regularly, other musicians would sometimes comment on the open space in my songs. Of course, at times, silence is intentional, part of the song. But also, I hear rhythms, and I hear parts that aren’t being played. Now, playing with a full band, more of that is realized. And I really can’t express my gratitude to my bandmates for the creativity and thoughtfulness they bring to each song,” Bailey said.
The tour brought the full band show to cities including Austin, Miami, St Louis, Chicago, Tulsa, and more, culminating in the homecoming show at Factory Obscura.
“Factory Obscura is by far one of my favorite places to play in OKC. The space is a work of art and intention is placed on treating artists with care. Getting to share these live tracks feels especially meaningful because the recordings document our first-ever tour-homecoming as a full band in a place that I deeply value," Bailey said.
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Renowned composer and musician Anna von Hausswolff has shared her gripping duet with Ethel Cain today. “‘Aging Young Women’ is about when the passing of time becomes a negative notion due to unfulfilled dreams and a feeling that a tainted situation is impossible to change to the contrary,” von Hauswolff states.
“Aging Young Women” the last preview into her upcoming album Iconoclasts which sees its release this Friday, October 31 via YEAR0001. Produced by von Hausswolff and longtime collaborator Filip Leyman, the album is an unparalleled opus of stirring movement, anthemic ritualism, and maximalist composition, marking a new chapter in von Hausswolff's music and featuring appearances from Ethel Cain, Abul Mogard, Iggy Pop, Maria von Hausswolf in addition to a vibrant ensemble of musicians.
von Hausswolff’s work carves out space for the celestial and the transcendent to enter into the modern world. Throughout the years, her sprawling releases have cemented her as an artist of unpredictable and vast creativity – always moving forward, always fusing tradition with experimentation in unimaginable ways. On Iconoclasts, her sound evolves again, bringing a poppier and more vibrant element to her moving songs.
Iconoclasts begins with brass heralding out, beckoning listeners into the boundless story that is about to unfold. From this, the groundwork is set for an album of blistering, mounting tension and hard-fought, euphoric release. Addressing themes of love, freedom, and autonomy, its title, Iconoclasts, hints at a shattering and reimagining of the sacred personal symbols that bubble under the surface of contemporary life: commitment, time, dependency, and belief.
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