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Brunotones Turns a Genre's Family Tree Into a Track on "Housetales"

Brunotones traces House music back through its disco roots, into Frankie Knuckles and the Warehouse in Chicago, onward through Detroit Tech...

thisaktmusic 11 Sep, 2026

mc el oso Hides an Experiment Behind an Easy-Listening Single on "Slow Burn"

The math doesn't quite add up between what mc el oso says this project is and what "Slow Burn" actually sounds like. The Athe...

thisaktmusic 11 Sep, 2026

Tilen Kammer Lets Silence Carry as Much Weight as Sound on "WSt" Album

Across fourteen tracks, Warsaw-based composer Tilen Kammer builds compositions around felt piano and cello entering sparsely, one instrument...

thisaktmusic 10 Sep, 2026

Brunotones Waited Four Decades to Finally Make House Music on "N Ta Odja Mar"

"N Ta Odja Mar" succeeds by refusing to soften the collision between grief and groove. At 61, Brunotones takes the mournful, weat...

thisaktmusic 10 Sep, 2026

Ronin 888 Turns Romantic Confusion Into a Zero-Gravity Sound on "Half Astronaut, Half Martian"

"Half Astronaut, Half Martian" succeeds by matching its metaphor to its production rather than treating the space imagery as decor...

thisaktmusic 10 Sep, 2026

Last Night Watchman Turns Fossils and Fallen Statues Into Songwriting on "Old Blighty" EP

"Old Blighty" succeeds by treating unlikely research material as legitimate emotional territory. The debut EP from Herefordshire s...

thisaktmusic 8 Sep, 2026

Mr J Started This Song as a Class Assignment on "Love Is A Fantasy"

"Love Is A Fantasy" began as a school project asking students to write their own song, and Mr J has said it evolved into somethin...

thisaktmusic 8 Sep, 2026