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Lick of Paint – Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures With ‘Lick of Paint’, Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures deliver a baroquely playful, razor-sharp blow against those circles of power that hide their brutality behind a veneer of etiquette. The song sounds like a polite reception, yet beneath the velvet simmers a system that…

Alchemy and the Flower – Moon and Aries

Alchemy and the Flower opens like an atmospheric threshold — a place where organic guitar lines thread themselves through understated, almost weightless electronics, as if both elements were feeling their way toward each other rather than meeting outright. The vocals drift in from somewhere slightly out of frame, close enough to register as presence, yet…

Hafta As – Ullrson, DVARA

Ullrson’s Viking-techno version of DVARA’s ‘Hafta As’ reimagines ritual music from a radically dancefloor-oriented perspective. Whilst the original drifts through spiritual imagery, the remix draws everything into a physical, pulsating space: kick drums like blacksmith’s hammers, bass pressure like a gathering storm, and above it all, archaic voices cutting through the mist like a mantra….

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Empathy for the Night Fly – E.G. Phillips Empathy for the Night Fly opens Signals in the Dark with a nocturnal calm that perfectly matches the lyrics: a man who realises he has ended up in a relationship where he is just another figure in this woman’s endless cycle. The song tells his story without…

FiloFX Records – 15th May: The City Never Sleeps – Rogue FX

News: The City Never Sleeps – Rogue FX Rogue FX paints the city as a restless creature, one that pulls people closer with every breath it takes, pushes them forward, and quietly wears them down in the process. As synthwave currents mingle with synthpop contours and the warm, rolling momentum of Italo and Nu‑Disco, the…

Once and for All – Split Vision

With “Once and for All”, Split Vision deliver a synth-pop moment that blurs the line between genuine emotion and artificial intimacy so thoroughly that you inevitably lose yourself in this state of limbo. The production relies on 80s-tinged synth pads that glow warmly, whilst beneath them a modern, almost clinical precision pulses. The result is…