‘Pseudocreme’ is a track selected from Ebi Soda’s new album Honk if You’re Sad. The musical compilation is a result of ten-hour jam sessions influenced by an archive of internet music culture and the UK jazz scene. Collaborating with trumpet player, Yazz Ahmed, the artist’s second album is noteworthy for its exceptional sense of experimentation and technical acumen. The accompanying video gives a voyeuristic feel as viewers watch the artists and a prawn-headed figure through a blurred, color-adjusted lens.

This track is the first single to be released from the artist’s album We Will Live On. Created with a Disklavier acoustic piano that has software allowing it to play itself with digital controls, the song and video alike make a commentary about humanity, technology, and the climate crisis we are living through. The debris and trash shown in the poetic video ask questions about loneliness, hope, and the current state of the world. The track itself follows a geometry-based pattern in its composition, making it different from most western music and producing a unique sense of order and structure.

This is the latest single from producer and multi-instrumentalist LDN Monos, a pseudonym for Curtis Neil. The track features an atmospheric sound, vocals sung in a Chinese dialect, and a sampling on instruments from around the world. The track explores the relationship between light and dark and the infinite cycle of life and rebirth. Depicted through the movements of synchronized swimmers above and below the water, the music traces physicality, water, belonging, and form as the swimmers form a natural beauty in their teamwork and anonymity.

‘Vox’ marks the artist’s first single of the year, using electronica and manipulation of rhythms to set a nostalgic and melancholic tone. Inspired by Four Tet and Burial, the artist constructs a tribute to the city of Dublin with intimate electronic sounds that form an acoustic series of events for the listener. Connecting with his roots as an Irish musician from a seaside town near Dublin, his music is inspired by coastal sounds and a visceral approach to electronic composition. The track is accompanied by a video that takes viewers on a tour of the city’s small moments of everyday life and infrastructure, infusing it with connection, community, and relatability, telling a story of old and new.

This track features various musical elements, unveiling an intellectual approach to composition and melody. The artist produces a surprising and deep sound by incorporating classical and ambient electronica with a string quartet, piano, and jazz instruments. His notorious approach to mixing contemporary, classical, and ambient sounds successfully tells a story in this song. The track’s video features adorable animations of small animals playing with toys and unfolding into an abstracted tessellation of psychedelic forms.

Thirteen years after releasing their first album, Allegories has dropped their second. Coming together and being pulled apart by life’s obligations at different paces, the two artists, Bently and Mitchell, found ways to keep their music alive. Their dance-oriented, abstract track ‘Tell Me, Before I Forget,’ makes everything worth the wait. Calming vocals and compelling rhythmic percussion bring this song to life in its deep bass and transformational elements. The video features ocean waves abstracted in geometric fluid transitions, demonstrating an ebb and flow that matches the artists’ stories.