A&R Factory

Finley Clark’s Illumination era feels built from neon mythology, emotional spectacle and the cost of candour. In this interview, the Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter opens up about launching the tour in Paris on Valentine’s Day, testing unreleased songs such as Mystery Punch and Berlin Baby live, and taking her conceptual world through Copenhagen, Bucharest, Rome and Palma....

Johnny B brought the Mediterranean’s scorched intensity into dark Americana with This is Your Life, a cinematic alt-rock release created in collaboration with Daniele Macchi. After the Greek alternative artist unleashed the track, a parallel world where Nick Cave soaked up the sun-dazed pressure of the coast and baked it into his dark, snarling sessions of alt-rock alchemy su...

Starlight Fever, the debut album from the Chicago-hailing singer-songwriter Isaiah Angel Hubbird, teases indie folk pop into the framing of classical arrangements without altering the quintessential instrumentation or architecture. The diaphanous sweeps of choral chamber pop through the melodies and the way his voice harmonises on an octave that would send shivers down the sp...

IDM reached its cerebral zenith through the unveiling of Blue Flame by the music producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and mood curator KYXORA. Following a cinematically Hans Zimmer-esque intro, the instrumental release builds into a world away from filmic opulence, moving towards transcendence, guided by kinetic energy which oscillates throughout the production, seemi...

Red Rowanne refuses to allow her sound to shrink into conformity with her latest single, Everything Costs, an exposition of what it means to live in a capitalist dystopia as a soul that craves what cannot be bought. There is a sense of claustrophobia within the cosmic expanse of the analog synth-driven release, visualising how impossible it feels to escape the ennui gifted by...