Haven West Veraguas is a 22-year-old Massachusetts-born writer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist now based in London, and The Black and White EP  is the first release in a planned three-part series that continues with The Colors EP  and ends with The Gradient LP . He handles the work himself across writing, performance, and production, and that control shows up in the EP’s consistency and sequencing. Framed as an existential and political alternative folk EP, The B

The artistic signature on Magna by the indie band Flame of Life asks a profound question: Is there beauty in chaos? This body of work pursues singularity by untamed experimentation. There's an otherworldly intrigue to these compositions, lasting over an hour, its idiosyncratic compositions bending and morphing every second. This is perhaps symmetrical to modernist art---letting listeners be the judge as they experience the creations, diverging strongly from the mainstream al

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