About a year ago, the world was introduced to Emma Hessels through 'Insular', the first single from what would become her debut EP ‘Constant Distance’. Since then, her career has taken off in a way few could have predicted: stages and festivals at home and abroad, a growing and devoted fanbase, and a name that has become impossible to ignore when talking about the most compelling new voices in (... Read more
'Alive', the new single from Antwerp trio BLUAI, started with guilt. Songwriter and guitarist Catherine Smet wrote it in the shadow of her grandmothers' deaths. Not just as an act of mourning, but as a reckoning with all the time she hadn't taken. The visits deferred, the conversations half-had, the presence that was never quite fully given. "The question becomes," the band reflect, "how many... Read more
Where previous single ‘Weather Girl’ drifted through uncertainty and transformation, ‘Building Fences’ turns inward. A raw, intimate reflection on care, vulnerability and the fragile boundaries we build to protect ourselves and others.
At its heart lies the desire to care for someone, while longing to be cared for in return. Repeating the line “All I wanted was to take care of you / Was it wrong... Read more
With ‘Tangkoa II’, Belgian producer and multi-instrumentalist Dijf Sanders invites listeners into a vibrant and immersive sonic world shaped by travel, collaboration and instinct. The album grew out of field recordings captured during a journey through Vietnam, later transformed into rhythmic, colourful compositions that feel both intimate and expansive.
Rather than building tracks piece by... Read more
There's a moment in 'Maintained Love' where Mauro Pawlowski admits he's running for a bus and suddenly finds himself thinking about someone he loves. No candlelit dinner, no sweeping gesture, just a ghost that appears at random times, and the quiet realization that it's enough. It might be the most disarmingly honest love song he's ever written.
Today 'Maintained Love' is the latest single from... Read more
