"there is an unpolished candour throughout the album, the antithesis of LA’s studio botox, photoshopped press shots and social media neediness"

"the song doesn't waste any time getting straight into an easy, breezy yacht rocking groove that suggests the late seventies never went away"

"controllers strewn across the floor, broken strings tangled around mic stands and her exhausted face reflected in the now cracked mirror."

"late night, big city tower block electronica drenched in pleasing distortion and static, coupled with a flickering fluorescent lit ambience"

"balances Dalt’s stubborn experimentalism with a more accessible pop sheen, but ultimately it’s a triumph for perseverance and time honing her studio and song craft"

"A lo-fi pop haze of field recordings, ambient electronics and a low key moody guitar motif gets the track rolling, setting a suitably opiated vibe for Lindh's hushed vocals"

"worked on stripping down the sound without sacrificing the message or artistic vision, and only gone and made a genuine alt-pop album"

"Equilibrium continues her artisinal analogue approach - no AI, no samples, no arpeggiators, no software instruments - a hand built labor of love."

"a surprising take on Bowie's, "China Girl", a gentle singer songwriter morphing into howling post-rock version of the now somewhat dated 80's pop classic."

"Lovely all-rounder album on a mellow, lo-fi, slacker-balearic tip."

"As the title suggests the track looks to the East, stopping off in India on the way and audaciously even drops in a flamenco flourish and a bit of Americana twang"

"an admirable attempt to map the gentler paths that snake through the ambient, new age and modern classical multiverses"

"a throwback, modern soul banger with all the deepness of those golden age classics, and something of the Normal Whitfield to it"

"Elsewhere showing her vocal versatility by switching between tower block spitting and dream soul, both styles effortlessly riding the broken beats and late night mood."

"this album will satiate the outsider demands of old heads and provide a gateway to the counter cultural sounds of fifty or sixty years ago for a new generation"

"The playing is pleasingly minimal and melodically ambiguous, always stopping just short of tired old tropes or overly familiar progressions"

"strings float in and out of the soundscape adding a hint of heart wrenching melancholy to the warm guitar layers that evoke simpler Southern lifestyles"

"And so the song continues for six, all too short minutes, a heart wrenching window into Ellis' childhood and his gospel and jazz roots."

"the most spiritual jazz sound bath since Alice Coltrane’s ashram years. It’s a deep, meaningful listen, pull up a chair."

"sounds that ricochet around the soundscape with the deconstructed violin and piano of the original before fading to whisper"

"The riddims are proper hip worriers, the lyrics worth repeating and Warzou takes us on a back to the future trip down jungle memory lane"

Alyas is an ambient hobbiest from Sweden, and for a part-timer he's been transmitting an impressive stream of calming etherealism for an...

"And so the song continues in lovely dreamy fashion, the instrumentation and voice gently swirling around each other before melting into the slide augmented, ambient cushion. "

"a group of working musicians ploughing traditional and alternative furrows in more rural communities. To be honest I never even knew that white gospel was even a thing"