Rising alt-country artist Nico Welsh is ready to launch his extremely anticipated debut EP, Lonesome Stranger, on Thursday, September 18th. With a sound steeped within the uncooked honesty of traditional nation and the sting of recent Americana, Welsh introduces himself as a robust new voice within the Alt-Nation, Rock/Americana music style.
Recorded in Boston, MA with an all star band that includes Luke Black and Drury Anderson of the Mountain Grass Unit and Jake Stevenson of Spherical Journey, the EP options three (3) authentic songs that discover themes of heartbreak, resilience, and trying to find a spot to belong. From its haunting opening observe of, “Evergreen”, to the driving rhythms of “Colorado Cowgirl”, Welsh’s music blends dusty-road storytelling with a contemporary edge that nods to influences like Jason Isbell, Merle Haggard, and Charley Crockett.
“This report is about feeling like an outsider, and turning that loneliness into one thing that people can relate and connect with,” says Welsh. “Lonesome Stranger is my first step into sharing these tales and discovering a house within the music.”
A longtime fixture in his hometown of Seattle, WA, Welsh honed his craft enjoying intimate reveals and sharing the stage with stalwarts equivalent to award profitable flat picker Luke Black, and Progressive Jam-Band guitarist Jake Stevenson. His sharp lyrical model and soulful vocals have already begun to attract consideration within the Alt-Nation scene. Welsh has additionally been internet hosting the weekly Nation Evening at Boston’s beloved native venue The Bebop.
Lonesome Stranger can be accessible on all streaming platforms on 9/18/2025, together with Spotify, YouTube, and Apple, in addition to all different streaming platforms.
Meral Polat is a Turkish psychedelic outfit led by vocalist and performer Meral Polat. Mixing Anatolian and Mesopotamian music traditions with the psychedelic rock revolution of Seventies Turkey (and the traditional Kurdish Dengbej storytelling custom) the band creates a wealthy and distinctive sonic tapestry. Their debut album ‘Ez Kî Me’ acquired crucial acclaim, garnering help from Jazzwise, MixedWorldMusic, and Songlines Journal. Now, the band is ready to launch their second album, ‘Meydan’, on nineteenth September 2025, by way of Belgian report label W.E.R.F. Exploring themes of freedom, feminism, and collective power, ‘Meydan’ is deeply rooted in homegrown musical influences, while increasing into psychedelic territory offering Meral Polat’s highly effective vocals with the inventive freedom to roam free. The album includes a
various palette of sound, utilising mind-bending synthesisers, astounding vocal harmonies, earthy percussion, soulful keys, crunchy guitars, and unbelievable contributions from an esteemed host of visitor musicians, crafting a daring and fashionable reinterpretation of conventional sounds.
Darkish-pop artist Riah unveils her boldest work but with the discharge of “The Fourth Wall” right this moment, a full-length album paired with the “Reclamation” visible EP.
Collectively, these initiatives shatter the boundary between performer and viewers, weaving confessionals, anthems and story-driven visuals into an immersive physique of labor that’s as susceptible as it’s defiant.
Throughout its tracks, “The Fourth Wall” dives headfirst into themes of psychological well being, taboo pleasure, grief, and self-discovery. Songs like “Discuss to Somebody” wrestle with nervousness and the seek for connection, whereas “Pores and skin on Chrome” and “Misb3hav3” embrace sensuality and unapologetic want.
“Expensive Unborn” grieves a life that by no means got here to be, and “House” anchors the undertaking with a uncommon second of tenderness and stability. The report spans intimate alt-pop ballads and sultry, beat-driven darkish R&B, with sonic nods to Rihanna, Spelles, Two Toes, and RÜFÜS DU SOL.
Acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Laura-Mary Carter, greatest often known as one half of the UK various duo Blood Purple Sneakers, returns this September together with her placing new single and accompanying video “4 Letter Phrases”, out seventeenth September 2025. Shot in a farm store in West Wales, 4 Letter Phrases video reveals Laura-Mary ready for somebody who by no means reveals and turning the empty store into her personal personal stage.
The observe comes forward of her debut solo album Bye Bye Jackie, due Sept twenty sixth 2025, and an intensive run of headline reveals throughout the UK and Europe this winter.
“4 Letter Phrases” is a pointy and playful minimize, pairing Carter’s dry wit together with her signature lyrical chew. With driving rhythms and a stressed melodic vitality, it captures the contradictions on the coronary heart of affection, its magnificence, absurdity, and volatility.
“‘Don’t be late’ units the stage, although in fact I’m hardly ever on time myself,” Carter explains. “What follows is a sharp-eyed story of affection’s push and pull, the place the four-letter phrase may very well be something, you determine what it’s, with a realizing eye-roll on the chaos of caring for somebody who drives you around the bend. It’s irony wrapped in melody, humour folded into heartbreak, all carried by a beat that refuses to face nonetheless.”
The one follows on from “June Gloom”, Carter’s atmospheric first providing from Bye Bye Jackie, which featured a stormy guitar contribution from Lee Kiernan (IDLES) and earned reward for its uncooked honesty and emotional immediacy. Collectively, the 2 tracks set the tone for an album that balances heartbreak with humour, intimacy with depth.
Phantom Pink is the hauntingly tender alias of Los Angeles-based artist Brayton Partitions, whose darkish, cinematic pressure of art-rock captures the sweetness in emotional chaos. Mixing jagged textures with dreamlike melodies, Phantom Pink’s sound is different worldly, but acquainted. Initially from Las Vegas, Partitions started writing songs at 10 as a strategy to navigate his rising pains and identification. After years of shaping his voice in DIY scenes throughout the West Coast, Phantom Pink has emerged with a sound uniquely bruised and delightful. His debut EP, A Good Coloration On You, performs like a collection of anxious vignettes delivered byan unreliable narrator, fragmented and teetering on the sting of readability. The report doubles as a love letter to Portland, OR, the place it was written, and the moody soundscapes of the Pacific Northwest. By sharply confessional lyrics, glitched-outrecordings of crows and midnight events with mates, A Good Coloration On You captures a definite emotional climate: foggy, electrical, and simply on the verge of breaking wide-open.
Her New Knife is an alternate band primarily based out of Philadelphia, PA. The group’s members embrace Edgar Atencio (guitar and vocals), Ben Kachler (guitar), Carolina Schooley (bass), and Elijah Ford (drums). The band’s current EP, chrome is lullaby, captures a uncooked, susceptible attract, providing followers of shoegaze and post-punk a profound connection to their distinctive sound. Their stay performances are a mesmerizing expertise, the place scraping guitars and relentless, machine-like drums create an environment that’s each intense and ephemeral. Every present is an indirect journey, drawing the viewers into fleeting and intimate moments.
Leap 12 months are the most recent genre-bending sonic phenomena to hail out of Stamford, CT. Formally based in 2024, Leap 12 months was much less a band coming collectively than a voice rising. Aiming to invigorate those that come throughout their haunting melodies, the trio marks their return with their second single, “Bridges”. Initially often known as producers for hip-hop artist Pastor Troy, Leap 12 months are reinventing their picture with bombastic alt-rock tracks within the vein of greats equivalent to Linkin Park, Nirvana, and Limp Bizkit.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter ZZ Ward will launch the deluxe version of her celebrated album Liberation on September nineteenth by way of Solar Data. The expanded model builds on her acclaimed return to uncooked, blues-driven roots with a group of unreleased songs and stay studio recordings, providing followers a deeper and extra intimate portrait of the artist at a robust new chapter in her profession.
The deluxe album introduces contemporary materials together with:
- The long-awaited unreleased studio observe “Midway There”
- A brand-new recording of “No person Is aware of You When You’re Down And Out”
- A stay efficiency of “Cadillac Man” captured on the legendary Solar Studio in Memphis
- 4 intimate EastWest Studios classes: “Mom,” “Bare within the Jungle,” “My Child Left Me,” and “Mud My Broom”.
Talking on the discharge, ZZ shares:
“This expanded model means loads to me as a result of it shares songs we purposely held again from the unique album, not as a result of they didn’t belong, however as a result of they have been so particular we wished to provide them their very own second. Recording at Solar Studio was particularly highly effective for me, it’s a spot with a lot historical past, and you may really feel the spirits of the artists who got here earlier than. Altogether, this deluxe version looks like a celebration of the music and a private milestone.”
“Whereas [previous solo album] Manu largely improvised on the story of my Colombian mom, evoking the feel and really feel of the Andes, I wished La Marea to talk to the story of my father and people like him who emigrated from Cuba to the US from 1959-1960, perpetually inhabiting the reminiscence of a homeland that not existed,” Bryan Senti explains.
That is the backdrop for critically acclaimed composer Bryan Senti‘s upcoming album La Marea, out October tenth launch by way of The state51 Conspiracy.
Weaving ambient, digital, and baroque music influences into the world of his earlier album, Manu, Senti’s comply with up, La Marea,is a contemporary and epic string orchestra cycle that takes us on a mediative nautical journey. Out right this moment is the unforgettable second piece and title observe “La Marea,”which is plaintive and enveloping. Again collaborating with Senti are Grammy winners Justin Moshkevich (co-producer) and Francesco Donadello (mixer) and the album contains performances from The Czech Nationwide Symphony, bassist Spencer Zahn (Quiet in a World Stuffed with Noise) and cellist Noah Hoffeld. La Marea was composed, and meticulously recorded particularly for Dolby Atmos,
beloved punk trio Good Luck shares “Timelapse,” the second single/video from their forthcoming album Huge Goals, Mister, out October 17 by way of Lauren Data and Specialist Topic within the UK.
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