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On This Track #13: The XCERTS – “rinse repeat”
Repetition as Memory, Adulthood as Reframing With “rinse repeat”, The XCERTS revisit their own past not through nostalgia, but through confrontation. Deliberately referencing “crisis in the slow lane” from their 2009 debut "In The Cold Wind We Smile", the track reflects on how grief, helplessness and emotional collapse evolve when experienced through adulthood rather than youth. Photo by The EXCERTS Musically, “rinse repeat” balances directness with restraint. Distorted guita
Raven
May 202 min read
On This Track #12: SUUNCAAT – “bite”
Restraint as Resistance, Club Culture as Distance With “bite”, released on May 20, SUUNCAAT approaches club music from a position of partial refusal. Rather than framing nightlife through excess, release or surrender, the track focuses on controlled participation - existing within overstimulating environments without fully dissolving into them. Photo by Rory Creelman Built around phonk-inspired rhythms, industrial textures and whisper-like vocal delivery, “bite” maintains a t
Raven
May 202 min read
THE DISCONNECT #1: Why Every Indie Artist Looks the Same Now I Indie Artist Aesthetics
AI-assisted editorial collage On the invisible pressure that turns individuality into a formula OPENING TENSION Alternative culture was built on the promise of escape. Escape from mainstream aesthetics, mainstream sounds, mainstream ways of being seen. But scroll through indie music spaces today, and contemporary indie artist aesthetics start to feel strangely familiar. Everyone is escaping in exactly the same direction. MAIN THESIS The algorithm doesn't just decide who gets
Anne
May 193 min read
On This Track #12: Cherry i – “Arctic Sun”
Displacement as Atmosphere, Intimacy as Instability With “Arctic Sun”, Cherry i approach art-rock through tension, emotional dependency and the lingering instability of displacement. Formed by musicians who relocated to the UK following the war in Ukraine, the London-based four-piece channel personal upheaval into music that feels simultaneously fragile and incendiary. Photo by Zero Poffenroth Built around spectral vocal delivery, abrasive guitar textures and restrained rhyth
Raven
May 192 min read
On This Track #11: Jenny Gillespie Mason – “Medicine of Light”
Spiritual Intimacy, Folk as Devotional Space In On This Track 11 Jenny Gillespie Mason "Medicine of Light", the artist approaches folk songwriting as a form of spiritual reflection rather than personal confession. The track unfolds with an almost liturgical stillness, treating sound less as emotional release than as a space for contemplation, attention and surrender. Album Cover by Jenny Gillespie Mason Originally written as a brief piano composition, the song was later recon
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May 182 min read
On This Track #10: Fleur Bleu·e – ”Question Marked Upon The World”
Belonging as Dislocation, Dream Pop as Observation With "Question Marked Upon The World", Fleur Bleu·e approach dream pop not as escapism, but as a framework for examining estrangement, migration and emotional instability. Written around the duo’s relocation from Paris to Pennsylvania, the album transforms feelings of cultural displacement into a broader meditation on belonging and self-perception. Album Cover by Fleur Bleu·e Musically, the record expands beyond the softer at
Raven
May 182 min read
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On This Track #31: Doctor Noize – "Some People See, But I Don't"
Seeing Beyond Sight Perception is often mistaken for certainty. We assume that seeing the world means understanding it, rarely questioning how much of our reality is shaped by habit, expectation or assumption. Yet perspective is never universal. Every person experiences the world differently, and sometimes it is those whose experiences fall outside the majority who reveal how limited our own understanding can be. On This Track 31, Doctor Noize's "Some People See, But I Don't"
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10 hours ago2 min read
On This Track: Weekend Listening #4
Four female artists worth turning up this weekend Four releases by female artists exploring identity, belonging and self-worth This week's On This Track: Weekend Listening 4 brings together four female artists whose music turns inward without losing sight of the world around them. Moving between indie pop, Americana, experimental folk and alternative music, these releases reflect on growing up, conditional love, belonging and the ongoing process of becoming yourself. Rather t
Anne
1 day ago4 min read
On This Track #30: The Nagual Effect – "Dive Away"
When Losing Your Balance Becomes a Way Back to Yourself Editorial Review | Partner Feature Security often reveals itself as an illusion only after it disappears. We build routines, relationships and ambitions believing they will remain unchanged, until a single moment exposes how fragile those foundations have always been. The challenge is rarely the collapse itself, but deciding what deserves to be rebuilt once certainty is gone. On This Track 30: The Nagual Effect "Dive Awa
Anne
2 days ago2 min read
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