FORRM, the multidisciplinary project led by artist and filmmaker Firouz FarmanFarmaian, released “PALAZZO” as part of a wider world connecting music, film an…

Brian Hunsaker closes the run of singles leading into his upcoming EP Where Dreamers Fall with “Final Score,” the fifth and final release before the full…

Ealing artist 50mething made “Obsession” alone in a home studio, handling the recording and production himself. The song is about his own fixation with music…

New York artist Ryan James Monroe made “MIRROR BALL” with an unusually specific brief: an end-of-summer glam anthem big enough for Madison Square Garden.…

Dan Webb’s “Thai Basil” is the third single from Lion Dance, his fifth album, due November 13. Earlier singles from the record dealt with Taoist and Buddhist…

Stroud-based singer-songwriter Hamish Bell Guerrini is revisiting “Singing In My Soul,” a song first released on his 1999 debut album Picture In My Bag and…

Los Angeles band Limit State closes its album with “Eleos,” an instrumental named after the Greek word for mercy, with connotations of restoration and…

Ukrainian concert violinist Sergiy Bolotny, now living in the Netherlands and performing with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, looks to Dutch folklore on his new…

Alexander Nantschev grew up between two connected apartments in Vienna. His father, violinist Nikolaj Nantschev, filled one with Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky…

Toronto rocker Emily Mac makes her five-song EP debut with producer and mixer Dajaun Martineau. Recorded at Noble Street Studios and Martineau’s home studio…

The Wow Wows Sound Ready for the Screen on I Am Your Man

SIENNÁ has spent years working between Japan and Norway, bringing electronic production into contact with classical instrumentation, jazz and Japanese…

Jason Lenyer Buchanan Turns to Keys on Lazarus

Rebecca Dow and David Sloan Push Back Against the Void on “War Against Emptiness”

Faroese producer and composer Benjamin Djurhuus spent years working as a producer, songwriter and collaborator before making öð [øh], his debut album. Warmth…

Derwin “Dr Jazz” Boyd is a Portland-based songwriter whose work draws on older pop, rock and R&B traditions. He wrote “Sweet Bikini” years before recording…

Brendan Ranney spent the mid-1990s playing in the Fort Wayne band Lurid and later worked around Claremont, California with Lurid and the short-lived Dregs.…

AstroVoyager is the electro-symphonic project of Philippe Fagnoni, a French musician who has been releasing under the name since the mid-2000s. His earlier…

The Elusives turn a grim idea into something made for the dance floor on “The Strangler.” The song takes inspiration from the strange fascination surrounding…

Elisabeth Grey’s “Echoes of Paradise” Brings Hope Into Orchestral Pop

Niel Lian’s Resilience in a World on Fire uses a deliberately narrow setup: twelve solo piano pieces recorded on acoustic piano. Lian is an Italian pianist…

Vidura Barrios has spent nearly two decades working with meditation music, Sanskrit mantra and Indian devotional traditions through Inner Splendor Media.…

Rihab Azar’s Dandelion Moves Through Grief, Time and Enchantment

Max Macready frame their music through a lost-future science-fiction lens, drawing on influences such as John Carpenter, Gary Numan, Jean-Michel Jarre and…

Adelaide composer Con Piliouras approaches “Almost Yesterday” as a modern classical piece for live ensemble, using classical guitar, piano, oboe, flute…

Dalinda’s music has always carried several worlds at once. Born to Bosnian parents, raised in Libya and now based in the UK, she has moved between Arabic…

Noah Crist pairs field recordings from Loch Raven Reservoir with piano on “Welcome to Loch Raven.”

Bright Shining Light describes SM-02 as the second entry in an instrumental series shaped increasingly by film music. The band sees it as a more immersive, orchestral step beyond SM-01, and traces par...

DIE DIE BE’s “Erased Faces,” featuring Dimitri Barbati, pairs spoken-sung vocals and sharp percussion with questions of identity and erasure.

Prism Tones’ Creative Spark Refuses a Single Musical Identity

Roxy Rawson’s “South Sudan” comes from an artist with a substantial history in orchestral and alternative folk music. Now based in Berlin, Rawson studied violin and piano at a Paris Conservatoire b…

Leyla Romanova’s “9/8” is a cinematic instrumental with a clear sense of motion. The Azerbaijani composer works across orchestral, chamber, piano, electronic, jazz, soul, techno, and pop-rock langu…

Francesco Trento’s In Omeostasi is a home-recorded debut EP shaped by piano, feeling, and processed detail. The Italian composer from Bassano del Grappa recorded the project entirely at home on his…

Sonny Southon’s Rolling The Dice brings a long public career into a private recording space. Southon, Samoan-Scottish and born in New Zealand, has performed at Wembley Arena, Glastonbury, Royal Alb…

ko.valainen’s life is an experimental electronic album with a severe concept: human emotion translated into machine language. The Brooklyn artist frames the record as a passage through different st…

Kirk Monteux’s Total Tranquility is relaxation music with a direct function. The German composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist behind Mysoftmusic has worked in television, film, and advertis…

Ocoeur’s Greener Grass, Clearer Water is a quiet record about scale. Franck Zaragoza, the French composer behind the project, has spent years shaping electronic and ambient music for n5MD, with wor…

Bones of the Sun’s Songs from the Garden sounds homemade in the best possible sense. The Copenhagen artist wrote, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered the EP from a home studio, and the music ke…

Bright Shining Light’s SM-01 leaves the usual song frame behind. After The Sun Is A Star, the New Jersey band moves into a nine-part instrumental record shaped by film influence, piano, electronics…

Amy Rita’s The Water Room belongs to a composer who thinks visually before the first note settles. The Swiss-Australian pianist and contemporary classical composer draws from film, visual art, and …

Philamelian’s 3 Pieces From An Old Statue returns to a two-bar motif first written for the sci-fi short Adarnia. In “An Old Statue Reimagined,” that source becomes a full piece shaped by piano, voi…

Yulyseus’ Nothing Under Heaven is ambient music that asks for patience before it gives anything back. The album does not deal in hooks or obvious peaks. It works through warm pads, long tones, low …

Block’s Love Crash does not treat a comeback like a clean victory lap. It sounds rowdy, bruised, funny in the wrong places, and too alive to sit quietly with its own damage. The New York anti-folk …

Victims of the New Math’s The Stories That You Weave opens with “The Run Up,” and the album starts like somebody shoving a blown-out amp into the room. A filtered distorted guitar fills the spectru…

Trond Flaata’s “Ide 1A” stays close to the piano. The playing is soft, emotional, and expressive, keeping a calm mood through the piece. Its repeating melody gives the track a warm feel-good pull, …

Dan Szyller’s “The Eyes of a Child” starts in soft light, guitar and atmospheric pads setting a brief calm before gritty distorted guitars take over. The switch is the point: the song does not ease…

Mary Knoblock’s Peach opens with “Mustang Clover,” and the album immediately feels close, damp, and emotional. The piano has a soft touch but a sharp taste in the notes. Her vocal enters almost rig…

Ivelisse Del Carmen’s “Before I’m Done” opens with organ-like pads giving the song a warm, suspended floor. The first feeling is stillness, but not safety. Her vocal enters slowly, emotional and ex…

John Arter’s “Homegirl” starts with acoustic guitar that pulls the song open immediately. The playing has a country tint, but the track still feels current, with Arter’s vocal stepping forward stro…

karkinoma’s façades has the nervous energy of a record made after the polite version of life stopped working. Dimitri Turlotte made it alone in a home studio, writing, recording, producing, mixing,…