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| Photo - Elise Ideiens |
With a quiet strength and unflinching honesty, Isabel Rumble returns with 'Digesting History', out yesterday Friday, October 3. As the final single before her forthcoming album 'Hold Everything Lightly' (October 24), it carries the hushed weight of reflection and the gentle clarity of change, offering a key that unlocks the themes at the heart of the record.
'Hold Everything Lightly' is an assured statement of identity, a clear distillation of who she is and the gentle strength of Isabel's indie-folk style. Across ten tracks, she writes through cycles of change, transition, and self-discovery, moving between internal landscapes and the rhythms of the world around her. The record deepens her understanding of womanhood while reconnecting with the stillness at the centre of it all. As Isabel explains:
“The songs that make up my second album are the most raw and honest I have written… This record is a return to the stillness at the centre of it all, and to the simplicity of the heart’s voice.”
For this newest track, 'Digesting History', Isabel Rumble reveals a different flavour to anything she has shared before, marking the first time she has released a song written on piano. Tender and heartfelt, the track opens with piano and Isabel’s dulcet voice, before plucked strings join in unison and a grounding double bass steadies the frame. As the song unfolds, the strings shift into smooth, bowed textures, expanding the arrangement like a breath held and released.
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The May release of Janita’s tenth studio album Mad Equation has become the most successful of her career—what’s more, it’s become the most successful in ECR Music Group history. Now, the two-time Billboard Top-40 hitmaker, releases a rousing, Beatles-inspired music video for the track “Let’s Go,” directed by acclaimed independent filmmaker Alice Teeple.
“We made a fun, tongue-in-cheek video for the album’s new single ‘Let’s Go,’ and I think it’s just what the doctor ordered,” says Janita. “We filmed this romp in Central Park with director Alice Teeple, and there are homages and Easter Eggs in it to The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ videos. How could you not make something fun when you have The Beatles as an inspiration!”
From the outset of her career, Janita has defied convention yet repeatedly enjoyed mainstream success. She’s commanded attention as a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and artist-rights activist who meets frequently with Congressional lawmakers. Rolling Stone praises Janita’s new album as one “in which echoes of PJ Harvey and St. Vincent resonate.” Billboard Magazine writes, “This woman’s got the goods. Janita has created a timeless, sensuous, musical mosaic that deserves to be heard.” Earmilk adds, “Janita is just getting started. Full of spirit, courage, and a refusal to fit into any box, balancing raw vulnerability with an unshakable sense of independence. It's the kind of music that makes you want to chase your dreams.”
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| Photo - Stephanie Senior |
Perth/Boorloo indie-pop / alt / folk artist ALEIA has a rare gift for alchemising heartache into something luminous, and that gift finds its fullest form on her debut EP 'Public Humiliation', arriving Thursday, November 6. The title track, out Friday, October 3, spills first like ink across the page. It’s a tender, tear-streaked addition to a collection that traces the bruised outlines of modern love, the ache of almosts, and the quiet humiliation of wanting too much in a world that gives too little.
With just two singles to her name, ALEIA already shimmers as a rare presence in the Australian indie folk pop landscape, with a lyricism that speaks candid truths and lends to tender introspection. Her debut EP builds on that promise, unfolding as a gentle reckoning, a heartfelt unravelling of love’s emotional debris, pieced together with clarity, vulnerability and care. Speaking on the EP, ALEIA states:
“'Public Humiliation’ is an EP I wrote after being jaded with love. I was newly single with my frontal lobe fully developed and realising I had only experienced toxic long-term relationships, painful situationships, and a nightmarish uncommitted life of casual dating. Being in love felt like a humiliation ritual to prove that you can be loved. It was sobering to be so self-aware of how embarrassing it is to be vulnerable in a culture that is used to romanticising casual sex."
On the title track, ALEIA’s instrumentation is delicate yet deliberate, a slow bloom where every element feels exposed. Gentle, slow-strummed guitar sets a mournful tone, soft at first, then growing sharper and more resolute as the pained feeling crests. Layered vocals glide in close, intimate and aching, creating a space that feels like a whispered confession shared in the quiet aftermath of heartbreak.
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The wait is over: Please Don’t Go is here. This first single of their new chapter shows Moving Into Tucson at their most urgent and confident yet. A track that balances raw emotion with sparkling melodies, it’s a heartfelt plea wrapped in the kind of indie rock anthem you’ll want on repeat. With this release, the Amsterdam band kicks off the road toward their upcoming album All Dressed Up (2026). Big hooks, bigger ambition — and a sound that’s ready for the bigger stage.
Moving Into Tucson have never stood still. From the raw immediacy of their debut album Distraction, to the anthemic heights of People Of The World, and the unexpected treasures of Gems Left Behind—each chapter has been a step forward, a sharpening of sound and vision.
Now comes the leap. “All Dressed Up” (release 2026) isn’t just an album title—it’s a statement. A signal flare. The sound of a band ready to claim the bigger stage they’ve always been destined for. First single, "Please Don't Go" sets the tone: bold, urgent, unshakably alive. It’s Moving Into Tucson at their most melodic, their most dynamic, and their most universal—without losing the raw edge that made them impossible to ignore in the first place.
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| Photo - Kate Bonin |
Following a wave of support from national radio and press, Argentine-American solo artist Pilar Victoria returns with the bewitching new single ‘Mi Vida’ - a heartfelt, bilingual single, blending Spanish and English, inspired by late-night calls with a long-distance partner.
Written and produced alongside Grammy winner Happy Perez (Halsey, Ariana Grande, Kali Uchis, Miguel, Miley Cyrus, Kehlani among others), the single is another radiant example of the unique chillout-pop sound that has seen Pilar gain widespread support, as comparable to Mazzy Star as it is to Billie Eilish and ROSALÍA.
A Houston-based singer-songwriter, born in Buenos Aires and raised in Texas, Pilar has become known for her dreamy, melancholic sound and her gift for turning personal experiences into songs that feel universally understood. Written late one night in her college dorm room, ‘Mi Vida’ reflects the quiet ache of a long-distance relationship. The song began after a FaceTime call with her partner, when Pilar sat down with her guitar and poured her emotions into music. What started as a way to ease her heartache quickly became one of her most honest compositions.
“I just want people to feel what I was feeling,” Pilar shares. “Even if it’s heavy, I hope it makes them float for a moment and know they’re not alone.”
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