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Tiberius Comforts Those Struggling With Profound Life Changes on Pastoral Emo Single “Sitting”

The most recent Tiberius album Troubadour was released through Audio Antihero on November 14, 2025. The record represents a benchmark in the development of Brendan Wright (they/them) as an artist and a full expression of the project as a full band. The song “Sitting” in particular showcases a sound on the album that one might describe as a kind of pastoral emo, a countrified shoegaze. The lyrics that truly sketch existential pain and an aching honesty with one’s grappling with the essential meanings and identities in life that once anchored you but which lose coherence when life seems to take you beyond what used to define you and you’re becoming comfortable with the changes even if it can seem scary at first. The guitar slides and impressionistic melodies paired with Wright’s thoughtful and passionate vocals strike the kind of mood that makes it feel okay not to have it all figured out and to have a sense of openness to what’s ahead. Listen to “Sitting” on Bandcamp and follow Tiberius at the links provided.

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S.C.A.B. Waxes Nostalgic in the Swirl of Jangle Shoegaze Psychedelia on “LOVE”

S.C.A.B. brings a new dimension of guitar composition to its song “LOVE.” The group had already mastered a creative jangle guitar sound but in that song and its whimsical yet melancholic and nostalgic tone the swirling melody that seems to eddy around the vocals is accomplished with splashes of sound and circular riffs that feel hypnotically transporting and bring the listener into an embrace of the music’s sense of introspective self-awareness looking back on the various kinds of love that exist in our loves in all their idealistic and not so flattering glory. The music video directed by Sampson Dahl shows the band seeming to stroll through childhood memories and young adulthood living spaces decorated with an affection for kitsch and all with an aesthetic like something from another decade and processed so that it looks like something shot on VHS down to the color line glitches and the wobbly outro credits sequence. In moments the way the song hits the psyche its reminiscent of something by James or Beach Fossils. Its a song that really does get stuck somewhere in your psyche and a testament to the quality of the band’s new record Somebody In New York Loves You which became available November 21, 2025 via Grind Select.

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The Video for Anthony Ruptak’s “PHANTASMAGORIA” is a Humorously Doomerist Reflection of the Current Dark Age

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The video Anthony Ruptak and Cole Naylor made for the song “PHANTASMAGORIA” is a perfect companion to the song and Ruptak’s fantastic 2025 album Tourist. It intersperses vivid scenes from a nightmare with the nightmare of everyday life in the present tense. The song has a distorted quality reflecting its raw and ragged emotions bursting from the confusion and despair of a world that seems to require resisting the status quo in which everything is, as the song’s lyrics state, a mess of our own collective making. We get through wading through a “phantasmagorical haze” while Ruptak hangs on to the old school where maybe things were rough but made more sense and maybe you could eke out a living without seeming every moment of your life taking something from you and costing you more than it ever has. The end of the video has Ruptak being buried with his hand around his mobile phone out of the grave and then bursting out with a last hurrah type of resistance to the endless wave of static and challenges only to witness the mushroom cloud that ends human life as we know it because as a species we’ve definitely let things go down the wrong path. And yet it’s a song with spirit and ultimately uplifting because that’s the tone to strike when things seem the bleakest they’ve been in our lifetimes in the modern era even for people who are already under incredibly challenging and lethal circumstances. The song challenges us to dream and do better. Watch the video for “PHANTASMAGORIA” on YouTube and follow Anthony Ruptak at the links provided.

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Dennis Hauck’s Impassioned Folk Americana Single “Natural Heart” is a Literary Examination of a Life Lived Guided by One’s Passions

Dennis Hauck’s new single “Natural Heart” is steeped in a classic folk Americana sound with expert and even spirited musical performances. But what truly makes the song stand out is Hauck’s vocal delivery of lyrics that explore the complexity of the human heart and how our natures can drive us to behave in ways that can feel unpredictable but really it reflects how we’ve been affected by our lives and what we believe about ourselves and how we understand our natures to be. And when you’re just living life with sensitivity and not a deep sense of self-awareness maybe you can only live your authentic life and seem unmindful of how you affect others. The song suggests more sense of self than the story conveys because as impassioned as the song is delivered it is with a sense of wry humor under the surface that points to having lived through some tumultuous patches across a lifetime that leave you with an sense of one’s limitations akin to hard earned wisdom. Listen to “Natural Heart” on YouTube and follow Dennis Hauck at the links below.

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Listen to Erik Hall’s Bold and Lively Interpretation of Steve Reich’s “Music For a Large Ensemble”

Erik Hall will release his new album Solo Three on January 23, 2026 via Western Vinyl. The composer and multi-instrumentalist interpreted pieces by Glenn Branca, Charlemagne Palestine, Laurie Spiegel and perhaps most ambitious of the group, “Music For a Large Ensemble” by Steve Reich. The composition originally written in 1978 for at least 23 performers finds its bright, lively spirit in dazzling sonic detail with its component parts supporting, augmenting and complementing each other in short and then longer lines back to those shorter and alterations in accent and volume to bring to the experience of listening an organic feel and one that stimulates the mind with the simple joy of its arrangements. Hall uses a divergent sound palette with synths, organs, pianos, guitar, bass (all performed, recorded and mixed by himself—impressive on its own) to lend a modern almost electronic music aesthetic to one of Reich’s classics. Listen to “Music For a Large Ensemble” on YouTube and follow Erik Hall at the links below.

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Silver Liz Creates a Cinematic Experience of Deep Affection in Dreampop Single “Through The Trees”

When “Through The Trees” begins it sounds as though you’re hearing strands of music from overlapping realities. But Silver Liz appears to write music with a deeply layered aesthetic with mixed styles intermingling in unpredictable ways. When the song gets off the ground it’s like an IDM song in terms of production and arrangement but the ethereal synths, melodiously atmospheric vocals and textural guitar work ground the song in human emotion and the feeling of deep affection for one’s beloved. The intertwining of electronic and organic elements is seamless and adds to a great sense of space and sonic depth throughout the song so that even at three minutes forty-five seconds it feels like a full cinematic experience with the changes in tone and emotional resonance. Listen to “Through The Trees” on Spotify and follow Silver Liz at the links provided. The duo’s new album III drops January 30, 2026 on limited edition colored vinyl, digital download and streaming.

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Trendsetter’s “Superhero” is Like a Downtempo IDM Journey to Mysterious and Intriguing Places

The dark tone at the onset of “Superhero” by Trendsetter (with collaborators Magnus Deus and Katty G) suggests long late nights driving the back alleys and byways like perhaps Batman would. The song has layers of saturated tone that feel like textures through which the yearning, melodic vocals come through like something out of a mid-to-late-90s downtempo song. But this piece of music sounds even more steeped in 2020s production. The percussion beats are in the vein of future garage/IDM but which drop drop out and echo lightly at times to give a subtle dub effect. But beyond picking apart the musical elements the song feels like a deep journey into mysterious places that stimulate the mind with the possibility of intrigue ahead. Listen to “Superhero” on Spotify and follow Trendsetter at the links below.

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Bad Flamingo Leans Into Defying Conventional Morality on the Languid, Noir Folk Single “The Fruit”

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With “The Fruit” Bad Flamingo takes a more gentle tone from the dark edge of some of its other songwriting. Some tasteful slide guitar work and folk-inflected delicacy gives a new quality to the band’s tales of being from the wrong side of the tracks and leaning into sweet temptations. Bad Flamingo is expert at implying people in the throes of a romantic and sexual relationship or rare connection and passion. But this song is more like having the time to reflect on yet another facet of that relationship in a moment with the typical, and refreshing, lack of regret for transgressing conventional behavior and morality in pursuit and service to something real and vital. The title of the song and references to snakes cleverly allude to original sin while discarding such spurious notions and taking a thrill at defying god/mainstream society at the same time. In the video we see the be-masked members languishing about in what looks like a hotel room from the 1970s, an aesthetic suiting their vibe and the late night musings of the song. Watch the video for “The Fruit” on YouTube and follow Bad Flamingo at the links below.

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CTZNSHP Returns With the Dark, Moody and Dissonant Post-Punk Song “Hawaii”

CTZNSHP recently released Lost Loves (A Collection Of Rarities), a compilation of early demos, practice space recordings, previous and more recent studio recordings. The Montreal-based post-punk band garnered attention a little over a decade ago for its commanding and spacious guitar and emotionally charged vocals with lyrics of uncommon psychological insight. The lead single “Hawaii” sounds more melancholic like a dark surf rock song Chris Isaak might sing. Its lightly distorted guitar lead threatens to break apart in any moment and the vocals similarly so in its urgency. And as the song progresses that initial impression splinters because it sounds more desparate and dissonant than anything you’d expect from Isaak and more like something in the vein of Preoccupations or Protomartyr and how both bands can dip into a fractured sensibility and then back into coherence reflecting the actual experience of having a moment of peak emotion. Listen to “Hawaii” on Bandcamp and follow CTZNSHP on Instagram.

014LN’s Darkly Sensuous and Alluring Downtempo Neo Soul Single “Creep With Me” is Overflowing With a Yearning For Complete Connection

01L4N (pronounced Oilan) recently released the downtempo neo soul single “Creep With Me.” The song with production by Brittany Campbell (aka 01L4N), Aaron Day and Dayloop with vocal contributions from The Last Artful, Dodgr has a dreamlike quality that draws you into its words of desire and a yearning for complete connection and commitment with one’s beloved in a deeply emotional, physical and spiritual way. The loping bass line pulses with a lingering dynamic off which hazy atmospheric melodies flow with the sensuous vocals in luminous cool colors of tone. The mood of the song is reminiscent of the more experimental moments of Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah albums with commanding and alluring performances from Campbell that bring you back in to revisit the spell the song weaves. Listen to “Creep With Me” on Spotify and follow Brittany Campbell at the links below.