Why Chillwave Keeps Coming Back: Goodbye Gravity by Attaboy
Ten Songs Under Thirty Minutes, Built on Pre-Chorus Lifts and Synth Haze From Fort Wayne Goodbye Gravity plays ten songs in 29 minutes and 21... Read More
Alt-Pop
Summer Shame: F. Scott’s Unearthly Opening Notes and Where They Went
Gabriel Burke’s Guelph Project Turns a Slow, Spacious Intro Into a Pop Groove Summer Shame opens on long, sustained notes that hang in the air... Read More
Why the Slower, Pre-Screen World Keeps Coming Back in Alex Shkudun’s NO TIME
A Pop-Rap Single Sets Storytelling Verses Against a Melodic Chorus Built on One Line The first production choice on NO TIME is the setting: late-night... Read More
Why the Bedroom Pop Era Keeps Coming Back on ยังคงรอเธอ by NackSgro
A Bangkok Singer-Songwriter Turns Three Thai Words, Still Waiting for You, Into Bedroom Pop Bedroom pop began as a production choice: record at home, and... Read More
Shimmering Synths Over a Sleeping House, and How to Hear Them in Junifer’s Thoughts for the Night
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A Chico Folktronica Artist Turns Sleeping Children and Kitchen Whispers Into Alt-Pop Thoughts for the Night opens on a wash of ambient synths, soaked in... Read More
The Bitwig Studio Sound and Where It Went on Love 2 Love You by Pearl Project
A Dutch Producer’s Bitwig Home Studio and a Piano Bridge Shape a Slow-Building Alt-Pop Single According to the project’s own website, the Pearl Project studio... Read More
Recess of My Mind Finds xskarma Layering One Voice Into Harmonies, and How to Hear It
A Bristol Producer, Drummer and Songwriter Turns Memory, Love and Loss Into Downtempo Pop Listen to the voices first. Recess of My Mind is the... Read More
The TD-3 Acid Bass Behind The Contrarian, and Where Erick Castrillon Took It
An LA Filmmaker Layers a Colombian Flauta De Millo Over Glitchy Alt-Pop Electronica About AI Roland built the TB-303 in 1981 to stand in for... Read More
Alibii Turn a Battle with Coeliac Disease Into I Think My Body Hates Me
A Sydney Duo Stacks Two Voices Over a Fast Pop-Rock Track Produced by Adrian Breakspear The production choice at the centre of i think my... Read More
Sarah Giles Made Don’t Whisper Inside Her Own Live Band and You Can Hear Where It Went
How a Nashville Producer Who Plays in the Band Built a Four-Minute Single Start with one line on the credit list. Chris Kuskey produced Don’t... Read More
The Hip-Hop Dance-Pop Sound and Where It Went on Hold Me Close Now! By Gloria May Byron 
Why Chillwave Keeps Coming Back: Goodbye Gravity by Attaboy 
Why Synth-Pop Keeps Coming Back, as Shoshan Dunamis Shows on Have a Sense 
Bright Arpeggios Under a Heavy Heart, and How to Hear Them on LNNY’s Gehen Rafatape Remix