There is a particular kind of artist who accumulates co-signs the way others accumulate streaming numbers, quietly and through the...
corto.alto has never been an artist interested in standing still. Liam Shortall, the Glasgow multi-instrumentalist and composer who built his...
There is a confidence specific to restraint. Knowing what to leave out of a record is a harder skill than filling every available space, and SALLIE demonstrate that understanding completely on Let Me Know. The Atlanta duo, formed by producer Jay-Mo Dejon and vocalist Zaria Hall, have built their sound...
There is a particular kind of music that does not announce itself loudly. It arrives at the right moment, settles...
There is a version of jazz that plays it safe, that stays tasteful, that never risks losing the room. Moses...
Bronze Whale has never been a project interested in the obvious move. Since 2018, the Austin duo has been quietly evolving its sound through a series of releases that resist easy categorization, pulling from electronic, ambient, and bass music traditions without fully committing to any single one of them. Need...
Some careers are defined by what an artist makes for other people. Kwes Darko has spent the better part of...
There is a version of ambition in music that has nothing to do with scale. Reuben Aziz has always understood...
Some voices carry an accent that has nothing to do with geography. Brooke Combe is Scottish, but when she sings, the lineage she is drawing from runs straight through the soul and R&B tradition of the 1960s and 70s, filtered through a sensibility that is entirely her own. Her debut...
There is a specific kind of loss that does not announce itself all at once. The realization that certain friendships...
