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London based singer songwriter Essosa enters a confident new phase with her six track EP Crush!, released May 1 via United Masters. Bright and glossy on the surface, the project carries a deeper emotional undercurrent, exploring the dual meaning of its title through themes of infatuation, loss and self assurance.The opening track “Crush!” sets the tone with a soft, yearning energy that balances sweetness with tension. “Missing U” follows as the emotional core, understated and reflective, capturing the lingering feeling of absence. On “Signs”, Essosa leans into clarity and self trust, delivering one of the EP’s most grounded moments.“Favourite Liar”…
This latest drop signals the start of a new chapter for Ceebo, who continues to build on a reputation for fearless creativity and sharp conceptual thinking. Since his 2023 debut Bluquet, he’s steadily elevated both his sound and profile. Last year’s LAMBETHNOTLA, hailed by Complex UK as one of 2024’s standout releases, cemented his place as one of the most compelling voices in the UK underground.Momentum only grew with blair babies, a project that balanced introspective writing with avant garde production, earning praise across major outlets including Dazed, NME, and The Guardian. On stage, he’s proven just as dynamic, from…
Soft Machine’s 13th album is packed with impressive songwriting and even a few firsts, it’s arguably one of the ever-evolving collective’s luckiest releases. Woodwind and keys player Theo Travis tells Prog about its creation and the posthumous appearance from one of the band’s co-founders.What is it that burrows deep within the British psyche to male it near impossible for a person – especially a musician – to accept a compliment? Evidence of this characteristic is on display when Prog catches up with Soft Machine’s Theo Travis to talk about the making of the band’s latest release, Thirteen.When it’s put to…
Songer delivers rebellion and duality on FIND MY FACE. A high-energy release built on tension, anger vs. joy, control vs. release, held in a tight, genre-fluid frame. Following April’s BONES, Songer returns with FIND MY FACE, extending a rollout structured for momentum rather than spikes. FIND MY FACE shifts the energy, faster, more direct, still controlled, built on childhood influences and cross-genre layering, leaning into contrast without forcing resolution.The video extends the concept through fragmented, stylised snapshots of modern Britain, routine, control, and disruption running in parallel. Songer states:FIND MY FACE to me is an unapologetic blend of the genres…
Saros is a rougelite third-person shooter set in a bleak sci-fi world. It’s also the spiritual successor to the eerie Returnal, but is it worth your time? Saros puts players in the boots of space chartist Arjun, who’s investigating the disappearance of an earlier expedition. Once he and his team arrive, everything starts feeling very Aliens with a touch of Doom thrown in. It’s tense, and the story made us excited to push forward and see what happened. The team soon discovers they’re in grave danger as hostile entities attack, while a solar phenomenon begins impacting their sanity, giving Saros…
Vermont-based metalcore powerhouse Saving Vice has officially returned with their highly anticipated new single, “The Shadow”, released worldwide via Arson Theory. Known for a sound that effortlessly bridges the gap between crushing heaviness and cinematic atmosphere, the band’s latest offering is a melodic yet undeniably raw statement that solidifies their standing in the modern metalcore landscape.“The Shadow” serves as a thematic bridge between the band’s past and present. According to the group, the song is a direct callback to their roots, weaving together narrative threads from their previous album and singles to conclude a story that originally began with “Good…
The artist from Minnesota is in reflective mood, providing much-needed feedback to the powers that be on how well it’s all going, whilst paying tribute to his ‘best boy’.The nine albums of Costa’s solo career show that he is not afraid of mixing it up. The ‘rubber to the road’ of The 4onthefloor, one of Costa’s earlier punk incarnations, has been replaced by a variety of styles. Lush orchestral folk on the album When The Lights Go Out, ambient instrumentals on Lull and Lull II, sun-soaked indie pop on Sunbleach and even a chilled-out cover of Blink-182’s best-selling album, Enema…
Credit: Max WagnerJoey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, and bands with a well-defined sound face the challenge of keeping their sound fresh while remaining true to what drew their audience in the first place. While their new album, Lost Cause Lover Fool, fits perfectly within their catalogue, it features subtle enhancements to their trademark sound. Americana UK’s Martin Johnson caught up with Joey Ryan at home in Los Angeles just…
Affectionis a mind-bending horror sci-fi starringHappy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe. Ellie Carter (Rothe) has never met the man who calls himself her husband, and can’t remember the life she is told is her own. Afflicted by violent seizures that reset her memory without warning, she is trapped in a cyclical nightmare, struggling to uncover the horrifying truth of her existence before she forgets it all over again. Written and directed by BT Meza. Starring Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Boy Kills World), Joseph Cross (Lincoln) and Julianna Layne (Scrap). Affectionis released in the UK and Ireland…
Uncork’d Entertainment will plunge audiences into darkness with the release ofBLACKOUT, arriving on Digital and On Demand platformsMay 5. Written and directed by Shane Aquino (Road Dogs),this psychological horror/thriller stars indie actor Mike Ferguson, whose 185+ credits have made him a familiar face in genre filmmaking. Blending psychological horror with sci-fi elements, the film plays like a stripped-down, indie cousin to Weapons—a haunting liminal space thriller where reality fractures into eerie, in-between worlds. Synopsis: After a sudden power outage, people awaken to a world cast in eternal night. Each is trapped in their own isolated version of reality. Soon, they…
Self Esteem: Maggie’s Song(Polydor)Dl/StreamingOut NowSelf Esteem releases new single, Maggie’s Song, taken from the from the acclaimed West End Play, Teeth ‘N’ Smiles which is on at Duke Of York’s Theatre until 6 June.Rebecca Lucy Taylor will need no introduction to LTW readers. She is one of the UK’s most exciting breakout stars of the past decade since stepping away from the duo Slow Club. Taylor has gone from cult favourite to mainstream hero in the space of five whirlwind years and entered 2026 as a bona fide triple threat in music, literature and acting, recipient of an Ivor Novello…
Film Name: Darner Director: James Edward Newton Writers: Lauren Jane Barnett Starring: Lauren Jane Barnett, Tony Mardon Darner is a brutal and intimate portrait of a couple consumed by a woman’s dire need to preserve her terminally ill husband. In a new interview on Blazing Minds ahead of the Horror-On-Sea Takeover at the Southend Film Festival, I got a chance to ask Writer-Actress Lauren Jane Barnett a few questions about her film ‘Darner‘ You can watch Darner at the Horror-On-Sea Takeover on Saturday 6th June at 11:00hrs. Q. Your film Darner has been selected to play at the Horror-on-Sea Take…