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The Guardian | ‘I just want to shake my tail feather’: how KeiyaA shut out the noise to make one of the year’s best albums

The pressure of besting her self-released debut – and becoming a public figure – made the US vocalist spiral. Remembering who she was inspired her phenomenal second LP, a comparison-defying odyssey of jazz, pop and club music

Clash | Nature TV’s ‘Unlucky For Some’ Is Endlessly Charming

Brighton indie charmers Nature TV have shared their debut album ‘Unlucky For Some’.

Willamette Week | Seattle Songwriter Dean Johnson Brings the Small, Everyday Interactions to Life

The artist opens for Gregory Alan Isakov at Edgefield on Sept. 7.

Pitchfork | Anna Tivel - Animal Poem

Through her graceful poetry and pristine instrumentation, the folk singer delivers indictments of modern indignities alongside moments of hope.

Rolling Stone | Newport Folk Festival 2025: The Best Things We Saw

It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that one of this year’s busiest artists at Newport would be the enigmatic 70-year-old cult singer-songwriter Dan Reeder, who spent the weekend jumping onto other artist’s sets, including the headlining performance from Jack Antonoff, who introduced Reeder as one of his all-time favorite songwriters.

Brooklyn Vegan | 10 Artists Shaping the New Indie-Country Boom

Lily Seabird lives in a self-described “hippie house” in Burlington, VT called “Trash Mountain,” which is also the name of her third album, released earlier this year on Lame-O Records.

Flood Magazine | Review: Flooding, Object 1

The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.

Reverie Online | Slash Need Isn’t Waiting for Permission, They’re Already in the Room

Toronto’s industrial synth punks are building their audience the old fashioned way: one sweaty, radical, cathartic live show at a time.

The Alternative | Interview: Flooding

Kansas City noise rock trio Flooding returned this year with the pummeling lead single “your silence is my favorite song,” and it was one of the few songs I had heard all year that felt particularly appropriate with its prickly ridicule of narcissistic abusers. After the release of two albums, the band arrive on their new EP object 1 with more urgency and a poppy take on their sinister sound. It’s a trip deep down into the muck, only it roils with more clarity as each punch is emphasized by jarring feedback for some of their strongest songs yet. I spoke with vocalist/guitarist Rose Brown about the EP below.

Sputnik Music | Review: Quest Master Obscure Power

The Australian artist Quest Master is one of today’s most prolific dungeon synth musicians. Releasing albums continuously since 2017, the style and atmosphere of Quest Master’s music can best be described as adventurous, melodic, truly escapist music — most reminiscent of the music from early-generation RPG and JRPG video games. There’s a clear upward trajectory in the musical development of this project, and I can say without exaggeration: the discography is now enriched with increasingly better albums.

Pitchfork | U.S. Girls: Scratch It Album Review