GRAMMY-nominated artist and visionary TAVE unveils his debut EP Fly Away: a charming mix of soulful sounds and transformative storytelling that invitations listeners on an genuine and enthralling sonic journey by way of love, therapeutic, and self-discovery. Impressed by introspective
moments in St. Lucia and a return to life’s basic truths, this assortment explores heartbreak, private development, and the peace present in nature’s embrace. Filled with colourful vibrancy and unshakable emotional depth, Fly Away invitations audiences to attach with their very own tales whereas exploring TAVE’s artistry in a wholly new dimension. “It’s about having actual conversations, and creating tales that keep true to what we’re experiencing: melodies, fact, and in the end… love,” shares TAVE.
MOIO doesn’t simply make music, he instructions emotion. In truth, the Nigerian- Irish singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist chases emotion with each lyric he pens, melody he sings, and beat, bassline, or guitar riff he performs. This pursuit has introduced him to an area between genres, co-existing within the realms of R&B, indie, different, and soul—but cleverly by no means committing to at least one above the opposite. By helming each facet of his artistry, he’s in a position to function fluidly, and his imaginative and prescient resonates throughout boundaries.
Rising up in Dublin, music known as to MOIO as a baby. His ardour was fostered by church and the radio in equal measure. After taking piano classes for a number of years, he taught himself guitar and bass. At 10-years-old, he sang stay for the primary time in school and fell in love with performing. Finally, a buddy urged him to obtain FL Studio to start out cooking up beats of his personal. Buzzing on Soundcloud with early uploads, he slowly however certainly attracted an viewers. Throughout 2023, he dropped “SUNBEAMING” adopted by “Open Your Eyes,” which amassed over 2.3 million Spotify streams. On its heels, MOIO’s single “Moments,” began to go viral a 12 months after its launch, climbing north of 19 million Spotify streams and notably catapulted to #1 on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart within the US, UK, Eire, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand. Alongside the way in which, he incited the applause of HYPEBEAST, Fashionably Early, Dancing Astronaut, and extra along with performing on the likes of Dublin’s Forbidden Fruit Competition and receiving an invitation to help d4vd on tour.
Introducing Black Lounge, an rising Indie Rock band primarily based in Essex, making waves with their debut EP, Black Tapes. Over the previous 12 months, they’ve been devoted to constructing their fanbase, sharpening their sound, and rising their presence throughout social media—all whereas crafting music they’re actually happy with. Their infectious mix of indie vibes and uncooked power is now accessible for listeners to find. Try their debut EP on Spotify and observe their journey on Instagram and TikTok.
Rising producer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter Madeline The Particular person returns along with her deeply transferring new single, ‘Man On The Moon’ – a young and poetic tribute to her late father. Emotionally uncooked but quietly highly effective, the monitor captures the depth of grief by way of fantastically layered metaphors and atmospheric manufacturing. What begins as a stripped-back acoustic guitar ballad step by step swells right into a cinematic sound, with stirring strings and delicate textures that elevate the track’s emotional weight.
Soul-stirring Swiss singer-songwriter Kings Elliot returns along with her new single ‘What If This World’, the newest glimpse into her extremely anticipated album ‘Born Blue’, set for launch on September twenty sixth. Identified for her cinematic, emotionally charged pop, Kings continues to steadiness heartfelt balladry with trendy pop sensibilities, delivering lyrics that replicate on the fragility of our connections, to one another and to the world we share.
Lisbon-based duo MXGPU, comprising Portuguese digital innovator Moullinex and singer/producer GPU Panic, at present share their subsequent single “decelerate,” out now by way of Discotexas. The monitor arrives forward of their collaborative venture’s debut album, Sudden Gentle, set for launch on September 26.
Whereas the earlier pop-d&b single “discover u” served as a step outdoors their typical palette, MXGPU return to their signature sound on “decelerate,” a melodic, slow-burning, dance music meditation. Guided by the mantra “decelerate to make a mark,” the monitor echoes the delicate second earlier than affect, when readability cuts by way of the noise. “decelerate” explores the intimacy that has outlined their 360° stay exhibits and their inventive bond: uncooked, deliberate, whereas carving emotion into each analog synth.
“There’s a pause, and time stands nonetheless. Your focus peaks, you possibly can hear your personal coronary heart beating. When all you hear is shouting, a whispered voice will stand out. When the whole lot feels rushed, it’s time to take it straightforward. Decelerate, decelerate to make a mark.” — MXGPU
the quintessential pop band of it-girls, The Aces, launch their new album Gold Star Child by way of SoundOn. An idea album that doesn’t take itself too significantly, Gold Star Child is a metaphorical membership in each metropolis the place if you already know…you already know. However everybody and anybody is invited to the very best get together of the summer time. If their earlier album is the backstory of discovering their identification, Gold Star Child is in flip a celebration of queerness and escapist, sapphic, disco-pop enjoyable. The largely self-produced album isn’t simply an evolution for the 4-piece, however the place they’ve been headed all alongside as they shed the burden of painful transparency and permit listeners to see them arrive liberated — Hear right here.
The band shared, “Once we began making ‘Gold Star Child,’ there was one objective in thoughts: we simply wished to have enjoyable. Pop melodies, pulsing 4 to the ground rhythm, shimmering guitars, and the funkiest bass strains we’ve written but. It was easy. If it didn’t make us transfer, we wrote one other track. All we wished to do was dance.”
Opening with the narrated “Welcome to Gold Star Child,” The Aces arrange the velvet-roped sonic queue into the most popular membership on the town; virtually a contemporary spin on George Clinton’s P-Funk mythology. The membership’s musical visitors that evening? None apart from The Aces, naturally.
The band begins crafting the right evening out, even when it’s simply the glitter-glossed mirage of escapism, throughout tracks like “Jealous,” “The Magic,” the album’s title monitor, and “You Obtained Me” for the clubgoers who begin the evening early and keep till the solar comes up. Then we attain the cellphone name that’s “The Ladies Interlude” the place the fashionably latecomers work out pregame plans and what they’re going to put on to Gold Star Child to make their ex, who they’ll inevitably run into, jealous.
Kimberley, BC-based folk-roots duo The Eisenhauers return with “One thing’s Gotta Give”, the soul-stirring second single from their forthcoming sophomore album Again Burner, out September 12 by way of Black Hen Music.
Written by Sheree Plett Eisenhauer, “One thing’s Gotta Give” is a laid-back, introspective mix of people and nation, carried by the duo’s signature heat harmonies and an unflinching honesty in regards to the precariousness of affection.
“The track got here from a spot of actual uncertainty about our relationship however the each of us hoping for some sort of shift to make issues higher,” says Sheree. “The unknown could be a scary place, particularly whenever you’re unsure the place issues are headed. Penning this track helped make sense of that feeling and have become a means for us to course of what as soon as was acquainted and what we would have liked to vary to maneuver ahead.”
The second chapter within the Again Burner story, “One thing’s Gotta Give” captures the emotional crossroads that outlined Sheree and Jeremy Eisenhauer’s latest years – a interval the place music itself grew to become the bridge again to at least one one other. The album chronicles the couple’s near-separation and their final option to recommit to each their marriage and their craft.
Recorded at Vancouver’s iconic The Warehouse Studio with producer Steve Dawson (who additionally contributes mandolin, electrical, and slide guitar), Again Burner options an all-star lineup together with drummer Leon Energy (Metropolis and Color, Frazey Ford), bassist Jeremy Holmes, and keyboardist Jen Gunderman (Sheryl Crow). The periods captured a live-off-the-floor power, with musicians typically enjoying every track solely as soon as earlier than recording, leading to a uncooked, rapid sound that enhances the album’s emotional weight.
“One thing’s Gotta Give” is obtainable now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and different digital retailers and streaming companies worldwide. For extra info, please go to theeisenhauers.com.
MORGAN MYLES
“Weight of Your Phrases”
• After turning heartbreak right into a viral 30-day therapeutic journey that captured thousands and thousands on-line, acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Morgan Myles channels her resilience into the empowering “Weight of Your Phrases.”
• “This track is for if you find yourself DONE! These are the phrases that your poisonous ex will say to you to apologize and manipulate you into staying. This was my launch once I lastly mentioned sufficient is sufficient. I don’t care what you say anymore.” — Morgan Myles
• Co-written with Andrew Rollins and Gary Nichols, the monitor delivers an unflinching take a look at the emotional toll of being caught in a tumultuous relationship. The track’s uncooked honesty channels the fiery grit of Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder & Lead” with the swagger and fringe of Elle King’s “Ex’s & Oh’s.”
Black Sands is the musical venture of LA-based songwriter and producer Andrew Balfour, a veteran inventive whose work exists in distinction — a collision of cinematic magnificence and emotional honesty, of darkness and light-weight. For the previous 5 years, Black Sands constructed a popularity on immersive, genre-bending soundscapes that drew comparisons to alt-pop auteurs like The Weeknd, The 1975, and Put up Malone. However together with his latest work, Balfour turns the quantity down — and the vulnerability up.
The brand new chapter of Black Sands trades experimental synth pop maximalism for stripped-back songwriting rooted in Americana, pop-country, and acoustic storytelling. It’s not a reinvention. It’s a homecoming.
Born out of immense private loss — the deaths of each his sister and brother, every tied to habit — this new period is extra grounded, extra centered. The music was written on a guitar in quiet moments, after the noise had settled. It explores the emotional rigidity between grief and development, reminiscence and momentum, love and remorse. Nevertheless it additionally makes area for pleasure, summer time nostalgia, and the unusual optimism that lingers even in damaged locations.
“Making Recollections,” the primary single of the brand new period, is a radiant, feel-good anthem — a love letter to carefree nights, shared glances, drinks that blur into laughter, and the sort of moments you want you could possibly stay in perpetually. It’s cinematic, sun-soaked, and tender. Different forthcoming tracks discover totally different shades of emotional duality: the reckless allure of “Rock Me”, the place Bacardi-fueled escapism masks loneliness; and “Our First Night time”, a contemporary love story wrapped in timeless heat and quiet marvel.
Whereas the brand new sound leans into the textures of country-pop and folks, Black Sands stays unmistakably trendy — cinematic in spirit, emotionally layered, and lyrically intimate. Suppose guitar-forward storytelling filtered by way of the lens of somebody who’s lived by way of distinction: former touring guitarist, international inventive chief, brother, and wanderer.
With over 4 million streams, press in retailers like Wonderland, Rolling Stone India, and Atwood Journal, sync placements with JetBlue, UFC, and the London Olympics, and up to date nominations on the Hollywood Impartial Music Awards and 2nd Place within the Unsigned Solely Songwriting Awards, Black Sands is not any stranger to acclaim. However this chapter is totally different. It’s quieter. More true. Extra human.
“I used to construct sonic worlds to higher perceive or outrun my ache,” says Balfour. “Now I’m constructing one thing to stay in — one thing that seems like house.”
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