Margaret Glaspy – Michigan

This is a mesmerising live rendition of the song that opens Margarets latest ‘I Am Both’ album, an arresting piece of folk‑leaning indie‑rock that clearly sets the emotional terms of the whole record. Drawn from a real visit to the Midwest, the song reframes that trip as a post‑breakup flight from New York’s intensity, a familiar fantasy for city dwellers seeking space to breathe. Glaspy’s direct vocals and pared‑back guitar work give the track its charge, forming a narrative where the geography becomes less the focus as the impulse to step away and recalibrate rises to the top. As an entry point to the record, it signals an album built on impressionistic detail and precise emotional stakes. You can order the album via this link: https://link.amazon/B00kz7ZMG

Wills Van Doorn – Aero

This track is one of the clearest demonstrations of Wills Van Doorn’s leap forward on ‘Enduro,’ a record that pushes his classicist power‑pop instincts to the fore with confidence. Still early in his career and unburdened by repetition, Van Doorn channels bright hooks, meticulous songcraft and a streak of spontaneity honed in Portland’s DIY scene. Produced in a whirlwind weekend with Johnny Payne and Beach House’s James Barone, ‘Aero’ soars with sensuous, Harrison‑esque guitar washes, octave‑vaulting verses and an elevating chorus; proof that his influences are not mere borrowed reference points but actually raw material forming something distinctly his own. You can get the album via the record labels website here: https://enigmaticbrunchrecords.bandcamp.com/

Lim Orion – Story

‘Story’ opens forthcoming album ‘ILK’ by placing Lim Orion, London‑based multidisciplinary artist Cara Sebastian, squarely inside the album’s central concern: reclaiming her voice through cathartic storytelling. Written during lockdown and amid emotionally fraught love, the track captures the suspended moment between indecision and hope, where distraction becomes a coping mechanism. Recorded live with her band, ‘Story’ layers blues‑tinged call‑and‑response vocals, swampy guitar hooks and organ lines that shift from dissatisfaction toward a bright, unruly release. It is a thematic and sonic overture for ‘ILK,’ a record built as a transportive vessel for finding freedom through narrative. You can find the song and more about the album via this link: https://limorion.bandcamp.com/track/story-3

Luluc – Rewarding Melody

This track features on ‘Sweet Relief,’ Luluc’s fifth album and one of their most harmony‑rich releases to date. Written in the quiet spaces Zoë Randell retreats to and later shaped in the Brooklyn studio the duo built over the past decade, the song reflects the album’s central tension of modern life’s shiny surface set against its exploitation and existential pull. Begun on Christmas morning at J Mascis’s home, the album explores love, hate, beauty and distraction with Luluc’s trademark sensitivity. ‘Rewarding Melody’ distils that approach into a song that is understated, meditative and immediately affecting. You can get the album via this link: https://luluc.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-thief

Slow Accordion – ’71

This track is a standout moment on Slow Accordion’s fully improvised, analog‑recorded debut, an avant‑country funk excursion born from four Nashville‑based musicians creating in real time. The quartet of Oliver Wood, Matt Glassmeyer, Ted Pecchio and Mark Raudabaugh entered Glassmeyer’s home studio with no concepts beyond collective spontaneity, tracking live in a circle to four‑track reel‑to‑reel. Across the album, tone and energy collide with deference and space, and ‘’71’ captures that chemistry at its most hard‑grooving and exploratory. This is a vivid example of the band’s ethos of comjuring music on the spot, pushed and pulled into shape by instinct. You can get the self titled album this way: https://meadownoise.bandcamp.com/

Baby Rose – Let Me Go

‘Let Me Go’ finds Baby Rose (D.C.-bred, North Carolina–raised, now Atlanta‑based) leaning fully into the lived‑in, timeless tone that has made her contralto one of the most striking voices in modern soul. The track, from her forthcoming album ‘Yearnalism,’ channels the album’s core theme of yearning through a confession of sorrow, release, and the hope of parting without collapse. Sonically, it reaches back toward Muscle Shoals–era spirit while carrying her signature blend of soul, jazz, gospel, rock, and R&B, delivered with cinematic intimacy. It is a stirring statement from an artist long informed by deep musical roots and a bold focus. You can find out more this way: https://babyrose.bandcamp.com/