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Stargazing – Max Monrae With ‘Stargazing’, Max Monrae demonstrates just how dark yet permeable dark pop can sound when conceived not as a stylistic device but as a radically personal space, in which a 19-year-old does not celebrate a new beginning but instead tentatively circles around it as a fragile yet inevitable gesture. The single,…

Radio Song – Andy Jans-Brown, Cameron Spike-Porter

With “Radio Song”, Andy Jans-Brown & Cameron Spike-Porter present one of those rare indie pop-rock singles that sound both light-footed and deeply unsettling at the same time. The track sticks in your head with its bouncy guitars, warm harmonies and an irresistible chorus – yet carries a political weight beneath the surface. It is precisely…

Fallout – kamikaze

“Fallout” feels like a state that slowly creeps into your body until you realise you’ve long since been breathing in a different atmosphere. The song doesn’t open up space; it constricts it. Everything is reduced to a few precisely placed elements: guitars that shimmer like thin strands of electricity, synth pads that spread like a…

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Golden Hours – SOLVIK The Golden Hours are those fleeting moments that glow as they pass, a delicate state of limbo in which closeness arises effortlessly and the world seems warmer, if only for a moment. SOLVIK captures this early intensity of a relationship not as a nostalgic look back, but as a conscious pause:…

Backyard Astronauts – I WANT POETRY

With “Backyard Astronauts”, I WANT POETRY open a window onto those bountiful summers when a garden was enough to step into the universe. The German indietronica duo thus taps into a cultural mood that is currently flaring up everywhere: Artemis II euphoria, Ryan Gosling’s interstellar tale of friendship, a collective gaze upwards – away from…

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in too Deep …no resistance – Arpraxis With in too deep… no resistance, Arpraxis presents an EP that makes its impact felt less through volume than through precisely crafted atmospheres. The intro, The Coolest Dad in Town, opens with a warm, washed-out soundscape – a track like a faded photograph that you don’t throw away…