New Music

There’s a very specific kind of confidence required to call your debut project Space Heartbreak. Not just “Heartbreak.” Not just “Late Night Feelings.” No. We’re going to space. We are leaving the planet. The emotional damage will be intergalactic. And honestly? Fair enough as Space Heartbreak doesn’t rely on big, dramatic sci-fi theatrics or overblown […]

There’s something deeply funny about calling your album Stylus in 2026. In an era where most people experience music as an invisible algorithmic vapor piped directly into their ears by a Swedish tech company, Dave Lebental has named his second solo LP after the tiny physical needle that drags through vinyl grooves. It’s like naming

Calling an album Nothing Lasts Forever usually feels like an open invitation to wallow, but Brock Davis takes the opposite route. Instead of leaning into doom or melodrama, his latest record lands somewhere far more human: reflective, grounded, and quietly reassuring. It’s an album that understands impermanence not as a threat, but as a reason

There’s a particular kind of music discourse that insists albums must behave themselves. They should have a clear narrative arc, a neat emotional progression, and a “correct” listening order you’re morally obligated to respect. Douby, the debut album from DJ SoulChild AC, does not care about any of that. And thank God. Releasing on February

There are two kinds of “space albums.” The first kind slaps a nebula on the cover, adds some reverb, and calls it a day. The second kind actually commits to the bit, builds a whole emotional ecosystem in zero gravity and asks you to float there for 45 minutes. Zero Hour: Genesis is very much

As someone who has been producing, writing, advising, and arranging songs, doing it alone on my foundational years was scary because you want to put out a product that you can be proud of, but TRXPSCO’s newest album of the same name did that unthinkable and did everything alone. Let me discuss the tracks in

There are two ways to approach a project like ai12DIE. One is to roll your eyes and say, “Oh good, the robots are rapping now.” The other is to lean in and ask, “Okay, but what if the robot has feelings about it?” Black Astronaut Records, under Charles Luck, very decisively chooses option two and