Delusive Relics delve into their Iranian roots by building their album The Blind Owl around the dark and gothic book of the same name. New Hampshire-based Electro-Industrial duo Delusive Relics felt they needed to create something that harked back to their Iranian heritage. Finding solace in the 100-year-old Iranian novel, The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat, they felt this would … [Read more...] about Delusive Relics: The Blind Owl – Review

Lyndol Descant delivers a playful yet poignant delve into her life on the fluctuating and intriguing, Let It All Krumble. Inspired to give expression to the struggle of creatives, single Let It All Krumble is here to give people hope when things are hard. Although being in a creative industry can be difficult, Lyndol believes this makes her feel alive and portrays this here … [Read more...] about Lyndol Descant: Let It All Krumble – Single Review

Tommy Newport releases latest EP Ultra Mango, a vibrant release exploring tender themes such as youth and inner-consciousness.  Tommy Newport’s sound world and artistic voice is carved out through fragmented and vivid imagery, whose ambiguity and mystery emits a certain youthful charm. He states that this EP is a result of a considerable amount of learning and naivety. … [Read more...] about Tommy Newport: Ultra Mango – Review

Unapologetically fierce yet at the same time candid and honest, Lucy Spraggan’s genre-blending sixth album Choices is the feel-good record we’ve all been waiting for. When we interviewed Lucy about this album back in November, she described it as ‘a diary of the last couple of years’ – years that include a divorce, getting sober, and an impressive physical transformation, so … [Read more...] about Lucy Spraggan: Choices – Review

Shafts of light peer through darkness on Nick Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis’s Lockdown album, Carnage, a recording steeped in both the turmoil of the pandemic and the singer’s classic themes of loss, redemption and apocalypse.  Nick Cave has spoken of how Lockdown has felt oddly familiar; the veteran singer-songwriter is well acquainted with isolation, loss and grief … [Read more...] about Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage – Review