The Blue Fiddles return with "Boundless Desire," a new single that embraces the passion of Southern rock and Americana while carrying the weight and reverence of a sacred hymn. Composed and written by looping artist Victor Vas, the song draws its lyrical foundation from George MacDonald's devotional poem Diary of an Old Soul, translating its meditation on spiritual perseverance into an affirming anthem for all.
At its heart, "Boundless Desire" reckons with the enduring struggle MacDonald named more than a century ago, those moments "when I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire." Vas takes that stillness and answers it with sound: the slide of an overdriven guitar, the force of a fiddle built for the leads, and a chorus that is equally at home in the church pew as it is on the back porch.
“The first time I encountered MacDonald's writing, I felt the words he wrote almost 150 years ago hit me straight in the heart.” says Vas. “I immediately imagined his poem as a song, and thought it was so well fit for music and our moment that someone must already have done it. I couldn't find a song that was a match though, so I just had to write it myself.”
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Salt Lake City-based singer-songwriter Josaleigh Pollett has announced their fourth full-length album, ‘If I Let It Quiet, and West Coast tour with new single, "The Witness." Produced by long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy), the new record will be released July 24th via Audio Antihero (Frog/ Tiberius/Avery Friedman/CIAO MALZ) and Lavender Vinyl on digital and vinyl.
The work of Pollett and Watko has received a slow burn of recognition over the years. Following Pollett’s warm and rootsy solo debut 'Strangers,' the duo initially found acclaim together in 2020 with the Indie Rock crunch of their ‘No Woman Is the Sea’ album. They reached a broader audience still with 2023’s electronics-infused ‘In the Garden, By the Weeds,’ thanks to support from notable outlets, including awards and end-of-year lists.
Pollett went on to share bills with St. Vincent, Torres, Deep Sea Diver, DeVotchKa, Mini Trees, and Hibou, as well as performing at Kilby Block Party. Additionally, they collaborated with Ekko Astral in 2024 and 2025. Although the continuation of Pollett and Watko's collaboration was never in question, the new album's creation faced new challenges due to Watko's relocation to Japan.
Despite this separation, the pair opted to make their first cross-continent collaboration more ambitious and exploratory than what had come before. The first single from this effort, October's "Radio Player" was praised for its atmosphere, melody, unconventional structure, evocation of VHS horror, and Pollett’s “career-best vocal performance.”
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Following the momentum of their first two 2026 releases, The Songs of Butler & Cupples return with ‘Frequency’, a vibrant and genre-fluid new single that further establishes the project’s songwriting-first ethos. Rooted in collaboration, musicianship, and substance over spectacle.
The release continues to position the duo as one of the more creatively ambitious emerging songwriting projects operating outside the constraints of traditional band structures. Conceived as a platform where the song itself remains the central focus, The Songs of Butler & Cupples was formed in response to a modern music landscape often driven more by perception than composition.
Helmed by two experienced industry songwriters, the project allows ideas to dictate direction, unrestricted by genre expectations or commercial formulas. With ‘Frequency’, the pair step into jazz-infused R&B and alternative pop territory, showcasing yet another dimension to their increasingly diverse catalogue.
Thematically, ‘Frequency’ explores the emotional unpredictability of club culture and human connection. Built around the idea that being on the “right frequency” can create euphoric, transcendent experiences, while being out of sync can spiral into something disorientating and surreal, the track embraces both chaos and beauty in equal measure. Drawing comparisons to the unsettling allure of a David Lynch narrative, the single balances tension with warmth, creating an atmosphere that feels hypnotic, immersive, and emotionally charged.
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POMELO is the duo of Luke Elliott and Wynnm Murphy. Together they 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 we announced last month. Second single, "Nasty Sauce" is out today. It reminds me a bit of Tirzah, maybe some echoes of Martina Topley-Bird. Like much of the record, it smolders but also, it stuns.
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.
"Unlike earlier projects in our respective careers that often felt like labors of love," the duo says, "this album felt like pure flow. There have never been timelines, goals, marks to make or expectations, and it has come alive on its own."
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