Music Essentials

  • Heartworms — Glutton for Punishment

    Glutton for Punishment

    Even if you’re a Heartworms fan, Glutton for Punishment packs a ton of range and surprises. It’s literary, theatrical, and mostly flawless.

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  • t l k – Strength in Tenderness

    Strength in Tenderness

    t l k makes ambient/electronic/jazz/hyperpop/I don’t know. It’s hard to classify and impossible to ignore. Listen for yourself.

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  • Featurette – Panic Pills

    Panic Pills

    Featurette are at their defiant best on Panic Pills – a defiant and cathartic electro pop record that’s an early favourite of 2025.

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  • Cardboard

    Wouldn’t Let you Realise

    Cardboard’s garage punk rock is reminiscent of some of the genre’s classic acts – from The Mooney Suzuki to Motorhead. It’s brilliant stuff.

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  • PALES – Crush EP

    Crush EP

    Strasbourg’s PALES latest EP Crush lives up to the furious, raw promise of the singles: an unmistakeable sound with confidence and swagger to spare.

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  • Stem Champ – Prairie Skies Forever

    Prairie Skies Forever

    Stem Champ makes indie rock about staying put, embracing the place you grew up while the world moves on around you. Prairie Skies Forever makes me want to visit home.

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  • Voyeur — Something Becomes You EP

    Something Becomes You

    Voyeur’s Something Becomes You EP is adventurous and sinister NYC rock that sounds both nostalgic and ultra-current.

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  • Gen — MIDNIGHT RAIN / DISCONNECT

    MIDNIGHT RAIN / DISCONNECT

    MIDNIGHT RAIN is meditative, enigmatic and moody, and very difficult to classify. It’s also irresistible.

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  • Truman Sinclair

    Joel Roberts

    Truman Sinclair’s “Joel Roberts” is already a classic to me. His boldly-titled upcoming LP American Recordings might be a highlight of the year.

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  • Kloyd

    Hourglass

    Kloyd’s Høurglass EP is atmospheric and moody electronic music – four tracks with enough range to spawn three remix releases. It’s excellent stuff.

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  • Heavy Feelings — Anatomy EP

    Heavy Feelings

    Nadia Garofalo’s sick-and-tired vocal paired with Ben Shillabeer’s post-punk instrumentals make Anatomy dark, gloomy and blisteringly good.

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  • tibia – Loud with you (Angel) EP

    Loud with You (Angel)

    tibia’s 2000s-era dance-rock is inspired by epic nights. The duo’s four singles would soundtrack a road trip perfectly.

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