There's a certain mainstream bias that emotionally charged music needs bustling sound dynamics, be it the raw defiance of Rock music in its relentless din or throbbing sound design on Electro-pop. Creative undertakings such as Boil ur iPhone from Beau Stevens rejects this trope, subtracting digitally polished compositions or imposing symphony for an unadorned, spontaneous but nevertheless impactful musicality. And all of this is made possible with acoustic guitars and unadult

Skiving’s The Family Computer  is a debut album that brings the raw energy of the band’s live performances into a studio setting. The record is shaped by themes of nostalgia and yearning, drawing on feelings tied to childhood promise and the realities of adult life under late-stage capitalism. Across the album, the band balances upbeat, driving arrangements with lyrics that often suggest isolation, uncertainty, and wanting to return to something familiar. Guitars move between

Leafboy’s MOLT  is a self-produced debut album rooted in bedroom pop and indie textures, built around intimacy, restraint, and emotional exposure. The album moves through questions of self-identity, unrequited connection, heartbreak, loss, and gradual recovery, returning often to the idea of shedding parts of the self in order to grow. Across the record, vocals stay close and understated, allowing fragility and uncertainty to remain audible rather than smoothed out, while the

Poetry and songwriting, oftentimes, are two sides of the same coin. The art of conveying deep, heart-rending sentiments in a song is nothing short of poetic; this forms the very crux of Larry Beckett's Though We Have Only Love- The Songs of Jacques Brel. The well-reputed poet devotedly took up a visionary and massive undertaking, one of revamping the chansons penned by the Belgian icon Jacques Brel into modernistic, yet timeless music.  A distinguished personage in contempora