Category: New Music

“Don’t Wanna Lose This” is built around the part of electronic music that can be easy to overlook: melody. Ronald Hage brings together Melodic Techno, Progressive House, and Trance influences to create a track that aims for both movement and emotional atmosphere. Rather than relying purely on a dancefloor-ready beat, Hage puts melody at the…

Classical music has never lacked emotional depth, but Symphonina Stories: New Horizons is built around a different question: how can orchestral music become more accessible to a generation accustomed to shorter, more immediate forms of listening? The album offers one answer through the Symphonina format—a complete melodic symphony designed to run for roughly ten minutes,…

Some love songs are built around the excitement of falling in love. “Amor” feels different. It comes from the quieter, deeper place of having loved someone for more than two decades and knowing exactly how much their presence has come to mean. The Spanish-language single from Rabbit on the Moon is rooted in a real…

There is something special about taking a melody that already carries a strong sense of place and giving it a completely new musical life. In “Little Dutch Rhapsody No. 3: Capriccio Amsterdam,” concert violinist Sergiy Bolotny does exactly that, transforming a familiar piece of Dutch musical heritage into an expressive solo violin work. At the…

There is something wonderfully intoxicating about “celebrity.” Ava Valianti takes the familiar idea of fame and turns it inward, exploring what happens when admiration becomes so intense that another person starts to feel like the most important person in the world. At the heart of the song is idolization. Valianti describes the experience of seeing…

Adorati Spiriti is the kind of concept album that asks a much bigger question than its story initially suggests: what happens to our identity when the world around us changes? At the centre of the album is Chayton, an elderly Cheyenne man nearing the end of his life. Knowing that the world inhabited by younger…

“DEVOUR” is an introduction that does not try to make the listener comfortable. DEDCHIMP arrives with a dark collision of industrial rock, alternative metal, goth and electronic music, using heavy guitars, electronic textures and raw vocals to create a sound that feels deliberately tense and confrontational. At the centre of the track is the idea…

Feel” wastes very little time getting to the point. Rosso Tierney’s new single is a fast, guitar-driven alternative rock track with the kind of energy that immediately recalls the heavier side of 90s rock while still sounding like a modern release. What makes the song more interesting than its sheer volume, though, is the question…

There is something naturally reflective about roads, the new EP from Louisiana songwriter, guitarist, and producer Michael B Kowal. Rather than feeling like a project built around a single sound or formula, it feels like a collection of songs gathered from different points in a life and finally brought together. The EP has a particularly…

Shattered Perspectives feels like an album built around one uncomfortable truth: the way we understand a relationship can change as we change ourselves. Brenna Menz turns the story of a complicated, more than two-year on-and-off relationship into a pop album that follows those changing emotions and perspectives. Rather than presenting the experience from one fixed…