EP Review

Mark Moule’s “Only Love” Isn’t Afraid To Take Up Space

Sometimes, all it needs is a friend, his music room, and a stubborn idea that kept looping for years to create a masterpiece like Mark Moule’s debut EP, Only Love. Mark Moule is a singer-songwriter from Busselton, Australia, whose deeply emotional writing style carries traces of legends like Cat Stevens and Phil Collins. And that […]

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Blueprint Tokyo Aren’t Trying to Convince You That Everything Will Be Okay on Dark New Days EP

There is a very specific emotional space that rock bands love to gesture toward but almost never commit to living in, and that space is the middle of things. Not the cinematic beginning where everything is charged with meaning, not the triumphant or devastating ending where everything finally makes sense, but the long, ambiguous stretch

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I.K.P.’s PSYCHE Is For Those Who Want Hip-Hop Lived Not Performed

When an artist knows how not to get lost in bravado and noise, you’ll get something like I.K.P’s latest EP, PSYCHE. And it’s not your average hip-hop because at its core are lived experiences that make each track feel earned instead of performed. Kenny M. Alvarez, known artistically as I.K.P. (The Infamous King of Positivity),

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The Game Leads the Charge on WarTorn: Inside HZPROD’s Fully Independent, Producer-Driven EP

WarTorn is the first EP from HZPROD, a producer born in Bosnia and raised in New York, now being reintroduced with a clearer story and a stronger push behind it. The project highlights his background, his mindset, and the bigger vision shaping his sound. It also brings in strong collaborations with The Game, KXNG Crooked,

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Wild River Is Built for Ecstatic Dance Floors, Conscious Festivals and Late-Night Club Systems Alike

There was a very specific moment in the early ’90s when producers collectively decided that the solution to any musical idea was, simply, to put a house beat under it. Didn’t matter what “it” was. Folk song? Add a four-on-the-floor. Eurodance hook? Obviously. Traditional tune your uncle plays at weddings? Give it a kick drum

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Brian Bee Frank Ignites a Raw Rock Odyssey in ‘Chasing the Dragon’

Brian Bee Frank’s first solo EP, Chasing the Dragon, blends the vibe of a Swedish studio with memories from the 1960s. On the lead single “Hate,” he reflects on his youth to find lessons for today’s divided world. The track “Time” feels like watching a sunset you wish would last a little longer. The song

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Spitting the Tea: A Beautiful Horror Is Ultimately About the Mind Under Stress

There’s a particular kind of brain spiral that happens at 2:17 a.m. You’re replaying a conversation from 2019, planning your five-year trajectory, imagining your enemies thriving out of spite, and somehow also convinced a minor typo will end your career. It’s not quite anxiety, not quite ambition. It’s more like your mind has decided to

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Uprooted Is Intimate, Controlled, and Quietly Defiant

Let’s begin with a cassette tape. Not metaphorically. Literally. The first thing you hear on Uprooted, the new EP from Toronto-based alternative R&B artist Ember L.I, is the soft, unmistakable click of plastic and magnetic tape being shuffled into place. It’s eight seconds long. It does almost nothing. And it tells you basically everything you

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