With his score for Yorgos Lanthimos’s gothic fantasies Poor Things and Kind of Kindness, Joscelin Dent-Pooley (aka Jerskin Fendrix) has proven that his skills in sonic storytelling are excellent. His quirky and elaborate instrumentals capture the restless nature of the former’s protagonist, Bella Baxter, a woman with the transplanted brain of an infant, who explores the good and bad of the world.
Composed largely between the artist’s film score work, Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire is an attempt to soundtrack Dent-Pooley’s own life story. Raised in the West Midlands, the songs are infused with references from his formative years, restoring the memories in detailed lyrics on the opening ‘Beth’s Farm’: “We kiss beneath the apple tree…
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Flock of Dimes – the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner – releases her third album, 
Solo projects are uneasy ground. It can be marred with identity crises or feeling like a watered- down edition of what you’re temporarily splintering from. It can also be fantastic and welcomed, but rarely both. In the case of María Zardoya, of the acclaimed quartet 
It’s been six long years since California native and multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte released new material as 
“And you’re off into the burning blue” songwriter Dave Benton sings on “Ponies,” the centerpiece of Trace Mountains’ fourth full-length album Into the Burning Blue. Decorated with retro textures and violet flowers, the album begins with the crackle of a fire, as if something is burning and hatching into a new form. As Benton grappled with the end of an 8-year romantic relationship, songs were pouring out of him in quick succession, often urgently before he had logically processed the emotions himself.
Alice Cohen has manifested throughout alternative music history in improbable ways, from MTV-era new wave with The Vels to Michael Stipe-produced grunge to 2000s hypnagogic pop.
dodie’s latest album, Not for Lack of Trying, stands as an intimate and tender follow-up to her 2021 debut, Build a Problem. Soft piano and muted guitar strokes thread throughout the record, accentuating her wistful vocals. The production is immaculate, but many of the songs follow a similar arc: gentle strumming on acoustic guitar swelling into a fuller sound of strings and vocal harmonies. Over time, this predictability undermines the album’s impact, especially in the slower second half.
Leading up to the release of her debut album, singer/songwriter 
…The new edition has been fully remastered and includes unreleased live tracks, plus the lost single ‘Don’t Leave Me Alone’.
…The British rock icons offer a slightly expanded edition of 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, pairing a 2014 remaster of the album (which initially came with additional bonus material) with a bonus EP of new unplugged mixes of four of the album’s tracks (plus a non-album B-side, “Acquiesce.” The group’s songwriter/guitarist Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho built these new versions from the original multitrack recordings in Noel’s London studio.
Growing up in Inverkip, Scotland, sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi learned to play multiple musical instruments, and in their mid-teens, they decided to start their own band when none of their peers were as into the ’80s and ’90s indie pop of C-86 and Sarah Records as they were. With younger sibling Eva singing lead and playing guitar, and Grace preferring drums, they dubbed themselves 
Have you ever become so immersed in a piece of art that you never want to leave its world? On their fourth full-length, Canadian electronic duo 
Previously, Carmarthenshire-born 
Sometimes at night, when mark william lewis is feeling overwhelmed, he visits the banks of the Thames River and skips rocks across its surface. “Each stone,” he says, “is another thought sent spinning into the water.” It’s a potent ritual, one you can almost hear in the songwriter’s opaque, introspective guitar ballads. In a dusky baritone, he offers meditations on heartbreak, connection, and the heavy burden of living. Half-thoughts and fractured images flit through his delicate songs; elusive truths flash out for a moment, then disappear into the black.
Nashville-by-way-of-Arkansas musician Drew Pulliam hinted at his potential with his 2023 EP.