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GiNN 諸葛靖 Darkened the Sphere of EDM Hip-Hop with His Seductively Entrancing Hit, Dizzy

Posted on 20 December 2024

One hit of Dizzy— GiNN 諸葛靖’s biggest single to date, which has racked up over 141k Spotify streams—slams you straight into a dark intersection between EDM & Hip-Hop.

Fans of both genres have had no trouble clocking the ingenuity behind this dark, reverberant, pulse-commandeering anthem that drags you into rhythmic submission.  GiNN’s bars become a magnetic focal point in the track as they wrestle the thick, pulsative progressions into line, a feat few could pull off without buckling under their own ambition.

Every progression is a juggernaut, hell-bent on stomping its influence onto the dancefloor and sinking into your synapses. It’s seductive but never salacious. Instead, it’s powered by the raw magnetism of GiNN’s enigmatic presence.

As a Los Angeles-born, Chinese American starving artist who grew up drifting between East and West, GiNN 諸葛靖 channels House, Techno, DNB, and ATL influences into his own Electro Hop blueprint. The lyrics may be indecipherable at times, but who cares when the vibe slaps this hard?

Stream Dizzy on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Orizon waxed lyrical on the distorted gospel of twisted faith in ‘thanks/sorry/fuck you’

Posted on 20 December 2024
Orizon

With thanks/sorry/fuck you, a seminal single from Orizon’s sophomore album Unchrist, the Melbourne-based experimentalist crafted an Avant-Garde symphony of conflicted thoughts and chaotic cohesion.

It’s an invitation to stare into the sonic abyss of a mind wrestling with a triality of contradictions and witness how the track builds on drill foundations, brashy boom-bap beats, and jagged synth lines that buzz like electricity sparking between frayed nerves. The track mirrors the unrelenting tension as gospel vocal samples surface intermittently, a warped and distorted reminder of the artist’s roots in Catholicism, where sin and salvation continually collide.

As the track evolves, Orizon’s steady and scarred bars hold their ground amidst unpredictable turns. Breakbeats tear through the production like the rapture battering stained glass windows, while moments of erratic electronica ensure the listener never settles into comfort.  The crescendos may be cinematic, but there’s little resolve to be found here as Orizon stands as a Lynchian figure in the experimental hip-hop sphere.

While his previous projects—Stories of the Supreme and RADIO (INPINK)—toyed with loneliness and love, this final instalment tackles religion with raw introspection. Each note feels like an exorcism, but Orizon doesn’t stop at self-purging. He challenges listeners to confront their own faith and struggles with belief.

With thanks/sorry/fuck you, Orizon redefines what experimental hip-hop can achieve—not by neatly slotting into a niche, but by allowing unfiltered creativity to dominate. This is what happens when an artist lets the truth cut deep.

thanks/sorry/fuck you hit all major streaming platforms on December 20th; find your preferred way to listen and connect with Orizon via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Rumination refracts through the emotive visceralism of Ricky’s alt-electro release, Dreaming

Posted on 18 December 2024

In his latest release, Dreaming, the artist and producer Ricky reached far beyond the reverberations of the moody electronic trend, entrenching his release in piercingly plaintive soul. As one of the most melancholic leftfield electronica tracks to permeate the airwaves in recent years, Dreaming transcends self-indulgence to deliver a raw visceral experience.

As the frenetically syncopated backbeat sonically visualises the tumult of the external world, the dual vocals from Ricky and an arcane-timbered female guest vocalist reflect rumination in the cultivated track, which reaches the epitome of affecting, Every note in Dreaming is a tender extension of vulnerability which entrances you into the emotion as light radiates from the progressions, refracting a sense of salvation that the lyrics yearn for.

Ricky’s roots trace back to Nottingham, where he cut his teeth with the electro-punk indie rave duo Battlecat! between 2007 and 2010, touring extensively and sharing stages with the likes of Hadouken!, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Two Door Cinema Club, Future Islands, and many more. He hit prestigious stages before pausing his output due to family commitments.

Eventually returning to music, he released ‘Pushing Buttons’ in 2021, drawing inspiration from Burial, Bicep, Boards of Canada, and The xx. Early singles caught the attention of BBC Introducing’s Dean Jackson, earning airplay and solid feedback. After grappling with depression and a ten-month hiatus, Ricky has re-emerged with a new EP in the works and plans to bring his live sound to the UK and Europe in early 2025. I know I will be the first in line for a ticket for the live rendition of Dreaming.

Dreaming was officially released on December 1st; stream the single on Spotify now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The guilt of grief locked into the minor-key melodies in The Every Glazer’s most affecting single to date, One More Day

Posted on 15 December 2024

The Every Glazer never shies away from emotive candour, yet, his latest single, One More Day, lays bare the inner turmoil that took hold after he rushed to the hospital to be by his mother’s side, only to arrive too late. The luminous minor-key notes meet the aching intensity of lyrics that detail his regret, as though the track had no choice but to spill from his soul in an attempt to process grief through a poetically intimate narrative.

Mourning rarely translates neatly into language. For some, it’s an alien phenomenon; for others who have firsthand experience, it’s simply beyond expression. The Every Glazer manages to crack that code by stripping himself bare in a score that feels both painfully raw and tenderly consoling.

Anyone who has ever stumbled through the guilt-ridden conflicting emotions of bereavement will find solace in the harrowing yet comforting presence of ‘One More Day’. It’s no easy listen. Even the singer-songwriter admits performing it live remains a daunting prospect. Yet its presence in the world ensures no one needs to bear that emotional weight alone. In under four minutes, The Every Glazer turns the inexplicable into a resonant, empathetic encounter.

One More Day was officially released on November 15; stream the single on Spotify and YouTube now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Detroit Dreampop Diehard Romantic, Jessie Berkshires, Pulled All the Emotive Punches in Her Latest Single, Don’t Let Me Down

Posted on 6 December 2024

With her latest single, Don’t Let Me Down, Detroit-based indie artist Jessie Berkshires carved a new vein into the dream-pop pantheon. Opening with tenderly hammered minor piano notes entwined with a syncopated, trip-hop-inspired beat, the track balances warmth and alienation in bittersweet duality.

Beneath its polished production lies a raw exploration of the paradox of love and its ability to flood your world with light while igniting fears of the darkness of heartbreak. Berkshires’ lyricism pierces with its candour: the tension between vulnerability and the need for reassurance is as gripping as the delicate melodies that carry it. Her ethereal vocal delivery is perfectly framed by an instrumental arrangement that feels both spacious and all-consuming, like staring into a love you want to trust but fear will falter.

The balance of the raw, relatable emotion and the cold visualisations of romantic dissonance in the instrumentals allow Jessie Berkshires to establish herself as an artist who knows exactly how to amplify her lyricism with melodies which may be quiescent, but they know exactly how to pull the evocative punches.

Don’t Let Me Down was officially released on November 22 and is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.  

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Ulysse Zangs turned the pages of a grief chapter with his artful installation of ambient folk in ‘Gone in Lust’

Posted on 5 December 2024

The opening sequence to Ulysse Zangs’ single, Gone in Lust, rivals the chill-inducing talents of David Lynch; it’s a slice of sonic arthouse cinema in itself. After the haunting discordance of the synths, a gentle acoustic guitar melody rises within the ambient folk production against the singer-songwriter’s diaphanously sweet vocal lines, which are just as caressive as Elliott Smith’s, with a nuanced alt-country twang.

As the single progresses with ethereal semi-lucid candour, the jarring synths pick their moments to rush through the release, adding a palpable sense of unease to the reverie of the single.

With every release orchestrated in an intersection of sound, movement and nature, Ulysse Zangs’ is so much more than an aural architect chiselling their legacy into the airwaves one release at a time. By pulling inspiration from a myriad of phenomena, their sound is as cerebral as it is invitingly intimate.

Given the filmic qualities of Gone in Lust, it is no surprise that Ulysse Zangs also scores for performance pieces, art installations and film. Their recently released EP, Idle Hands Or, which features Gone in Lust, is an exploration of grief and recovery; after the passing of his grandmother, Zangs returned to their hometown, a small village in Normandy, and set up a studio in their grandmother’s former home.

Speaking on the EP, the artist reveals, “This album feels like an invitation to slow down and contemplate—both the external environment and the inner landscapes of emotion. It reflects my journey of letting go of the past and arriving fully in the present moment.”

Gone in Lust is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The Music Architect unchained their originality in their alt-pop tour de force, MINE

Posted on 3 December 2024

The lead title track from The Music Architect’s double A-side release, MINE, pulsates with organic originality through a myriad of transgressions in aural aesthetics, making the earworm impossible to pigeonhole.

Attempting to scribe the artist’s sonic signature in words is no simple task; it’s all about the vibe; the vibe that allows you to sink into a seductively cinematic panorama of unfeigned emotion, painted with alt-electro pop motifs, rare lashings of funk flirtations, drips of disco, and the neon-lit synaesthesia of synthwave.

In a music landscape often saturated with formulaic compositions, The Music Architect blazes their own trail by favouring expression over commercial appeal yet manages to hit a home run in both ballparks. The palpable urgency in the vocal performance, which is as chameleonic as the instrumental arrangement, sweeps you up with the force of a riptide in its visceral embodiment of desire.

The 19-year-old New Zealand-based producer and artist has been crafting and releasing music since the age of 14. Their debut album, Depressed But Well Dressed, dropped on Spotify in 2022. Since then, they’ve explored a spectrum of genres—from the indie rock tones of Garden of Mind to the dance and RnB vibes of the 2023 album Metanoia. Now ephemerally nestled in the alt-pop arena with MINE, the Avant-Gardist is becoming increasingly harder to ignore.

Stream MINE on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Illuminating Longing: Red Vinci’s alt-electro allegory of disillusionment ‘Sunset’ Casts Shadows in Light

Posted on 3 December 2024

After a four-year hiatus, Stas Kurkou’s solo project, Red Vinci, has resurfaced with the emotionally electrified EP Where The Heart Is. In the spotlight is the single Sunset, an alt-electro embodiment of longing with cinematic depth and pseudo-industrial intensity. Red Vinci’s knack for blending lo-fi production with vivid synthetic textures remains as potent as ever, delivering a soundscape that fans of Covenant and Apoptygma Berzerk will revel in.

With Sunset, Kurkou builds on his thematic legacy, which began with Year Of The 9 and its exploration of identity, and Psycho, drenched in the neon-lit disillusionment of a GTA Vice City dreamscape. The latest release, the third instalment in this poignant chronology, dives into the emotional terrain of anxiety, belonging, and nurturing the inner child.

The track’s phasers burst like fragmented starlight through the tension-heavy production, visually representing the longing for luminosity as the synth-driven arrangement finds balance in Kurkou’s reverberated vocals, their softness a striking juxtaposition to the gritty textures, creating an emotional contrast that is as haunting as it is hypnotic.

The Where is the Heart EP was officially released on November 22; stream the EP on Spotify now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

figaro heralded the new wave of darkwave indie with their ‘Good Bones’ EP

Posted on 1 December 2024

If your playlists are littered with tracks from White Lies and Editors, the latest EP, Good Bones, from the Brooklyn-based alt-indie trailblazer figaro is a homecoming for malaised souls seeking salvation in moody synth-driven indie guitar-licked pulsative euphony.

Haunting the borderlands between post-punk-tinged industrial indie sleaze and darkwave synth-pop, the 6-track release is an anthology of strobing ennui. The opening single, Maybe Cherry, has infiltrated swathes of influential indie playlists with its aching atmospherics, angular guitars and abstract crooned lyrics, which paint poetry throughout the hypnotic oscillations.

In Foreva, the indie artist wears their 80s influence on their guitar strings, harking back to the tonal mesmerism of Echo and the Bunnymen while delivering hymnally intimate installations of introspection. All I Know is yet another standout on the EP; with sweeping guitars which echo Interpol, polyphonic synths, a syncopated beat, and the delicious sonic dejection of PEACE and Jaws, figaro scorched their way through the oversaturated synth-pop scene, reigning supreme over the indie landfill pawns as one of the most organically original artists who has graced the darkwaves in recent years.

Stream figaro’s sophomore EP, Good Bones, which dropped on November 22nd, on all major platforms, including Spotify.

For more ways to listen and connect with figaro use this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Kendra Erika let her beats talk rhythmic anatomy in her latest EDM Pop earworm, Body Language

Posted on 30 November 2024

Kendra Erika’s latest hit ‘Body Language’ is a monumental dance-pop anthem that could easily hold its own among the illustrious hits of Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris. With its kinetic euphoria pulsing through every beat, this track is a masterclass in rhythmic anatomy.

The music escalates from shimmering disco-pop crescendos to deep, heart-thumping drops, creating vortexes of ecstasy as Erika’s harmonies weave through the meticulously polished layers of the track, binding seductive hooks with a vibrancy that resonates deep within the psyche.

The success of ‘Body Language’ is evidenced by its ascent to the number two spot on the iTunes Chart and the virality of its accompanying music video, which has amassed over a million views on YouTube. This achievement is punctuated by its rotation on MTV’s “Spankin’ New” Music Video Show, signalling Erika’s undeniable impact on the EDM scene.

Further solidifying her influence, Kendra Erika has secured a distribution deal with KDM Music, expanding her reach across 19 Asian territories. Collaborations with industry heavyweights like Ellis Miah, Marvin Buessau, and the GRAMMY-nominated DJ StoneBridge, who remixed the track, underscore her pivotal role in shaping the dance music landscape.

Body Language is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast