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Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää on a grey December day,... cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/a...
Annstiina – field
Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää …
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February 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää on a grey December day,... cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/a...
Ashot Danielyan is a pianist and improviser who treats the instrument like his home base, even while his catalogue moves through classical, ambient, new age and experimental corners. cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/a...
Ashot Danielyan – On the Station
Ashot Danielyan is a pianist and improviser who treats the instrument like his home base, even while his catalogue moves through classical, ambient, new age and experimental corners. Awards from so…
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February 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Ashot Danielyan is a pianist and improviser who treats the instrument like his home base, even while his catalogue moves through classical, ambient, new age and experimental corners. cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/a...
Fiona Amaka has been carving out her own corner of London’s indie scene with a mix of “rock’n’soul,” bluesy vocals, and guitars that lean either into crunch or folk warmth depending on the song. cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/f...
Fiona Amaka – Desert Flower
Fiona Amaka has been carving out her own corner of London’s indie scene with a mix of “rock’n’soul,” bluesy vocals, and guitars that lean either into crunch or folk warmth depending on the song. Ac…
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February 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Fiona Amaka has been carving out her own corner of London’s indie scene with a mix of “rock’n’soul,” bluesy vocals, and guitars that lean either into crunch or folk warmth depending on the song. cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/f...
Stephani Ezatoff comes out of the Pittsburgh gospel world with a voice shaped by church music and old hymns, but this version of “Precious Lord Take My Hand” plants her right inside the classic Nashville tradition. cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/s...
Stephani Ezatoff – Precious Lord Take My Hand
Stephani Ezatoff comes out of the Pittsburgh gospel world with a voice shaped by church music and old hymns, but this version of “Precious Lord Take My Hand” plants her right inside the classic Nas…
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February 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Stephani Ezatoff comes out of the Pittsburgh gospel world with a voice shaped by church music and old hymns, but this version of “Precious Lord Take My Hand” plants her right inside the classic Nashville tradition. cinematicgiants.com/2026/02/03/s...
Tulegon is an Italian musician, producer, and songwriter from Puglia who treats pop structure like a container for poetry experiments.
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Tulegon – All the world’s dreams
Tulegon is an Italian musician, producer, and songwriter from Puglia who treats pop structure like a container for poetry experiments. His concept album Pessoa pulls directly from Fernando Pessoa’s…
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January 31, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Tulegon is an Italian musician, producer, and songwriter from Puglia who treats pop structure like a container for poetry experiments.
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/31/t...
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Andy Smythe is one of those long-haul British songwriters who never really left the circuit. Based in London, he’s eight albums deep, still writing politically loaded folk-rock... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/31/a...
Andy Smythe – Leviathan
Andy Smythe is one of those long-haul British songwriters who never really left the circuit. Based in London, he’s eight albums deep, still writing politically loaded folk-rock in small studios and…
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January 31, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Andy Smythe is one of those long-haul British songwriters who never really left the circuit. Based in London, he’s eight albums deep, still writing politically loaded folk-rock... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/31/a...
Thickshake is a one-person pop project out of Rockhampton, a multi-instrumentalist who decided to stop waiting for the “right time” and just make the songs himself. He writes, records, mixes, and masters in a downstairs music room,... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/28/t...
Thickshake – Through the Daylight
Thickshake is a one-person pop project out of Rockhampton, a multi-instrumentalist who decided to stop waiting for the “right time” and just make the songs himself. He writes, records, mixes, and m…
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January 28, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Thickshake is a one-person pop project out of Rockhampton, a multi-instrumentalist who decided to stop waiting for the “right time” and just make the songs himself. He writes, records, mixes, and masters in a downstairs music room,... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/28/t...
John Lebanon is a Boston-based project built on split geography: New York apartments, Providence studios, Beirut shows, and a head full of Lebanese pop, disco and indie guitar music. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/28/j...
John Lebanon – Disco Boi Beirut
John Lebanon is a Boston-based project built on split geography: New York apartments, Providence studios, Beirut shows, and a head full of Lebanese pop, disco and indie guitar music. “Disco Boi” st…
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January 28, 2026 at 1:50 AM
John Lebanon is a Boston-based project built on split geography: New York apartments, Providence studios, Beirut shows, and a head full of Lebanese pop, disco and indie guitar music. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/28/j...
Adam Wedd is a British songwriter with a classic rock heart and a habit of turning everyday chaos into hooks. For “FIGURE IT OUT,” he literally wrote the topline in a car queue on the way to Metropolis Studios,...
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Adam Wedd – Figure it out
Adam Wedd is a British songwriter with a classic rock heart and a habit of turning everyday chaos into hooks. For “FIGURE IT OUT,” he literally wrote the topline in a car queue on the way to Metrop…
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January 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Adam Wedd is a British songwriter with a classic rock heart and a habit of turning everyday chaos into hooks. For “FIGURE IT OUT,” he literally wrote the topline in a car queue on the way to Metropolis Studios,...
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/27/a...
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/27/a...
Koeve is a teenage urbano artist from Murcia, Spain, working in that space where reggaeton, pop rap and moody synth stuff all bleed into each other. He’s young, but Antes de ser yo already feels like he knows exactly what he wants this project to be... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/27/k...
Koeve – Antes de ser yo
Koeve is a teenage urbano artist from Murcia, Spain, working in that space where reggaeton, pop rap and moody synth stuff all bleed into each other. He’s young, but Antes de ser yo already feels li…
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January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Koeve is a teenage urbano artist from Murcia, Spain, working in that space where reggaeton, pop rap and moody synth stuff all bleed into each other. He’s young, but Antes de ser yo already feels like he knows exactly what he wants this project to be... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/27/k...
A Violet In Youth are a Los Angeles band who treat songs like collages: guitar loops, stacked vocals, and pockets of space stitched together by guitarist-songwriter Daniella Lollie with bandmates Lisa Yan, Amanda Erwin, Kelly Kuhn and Garrett Zeile. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/25/a...
A VIOLET IN YOUTH – Lost My Way Home
A Violet In Youth are a Los Angeles band who treat songs like collages: guitar loops, stacked vocals, and pockets of space stitched together by guitarist-songwriter Daniella Lollie with bandmates L…
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January 25, 2026 at 12:30 AM
A Violet In Youth are a Los Angeles band who treat songs like collages: guitar loops, stacked vocals, and pockets of space stitched together by guitarist-songwriter Daniella Lollie with bandmates Lisa Yan, Amanda Erwin, Kelly Kuhn and Garrett Zeile. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/25/a...
LUISA is a Scotland-based composer, pianist and producer who builds electronic pieces out of piano, beats, folk instruments and field recordings taken while living across Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine and Albania as a military spouse. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/24/l...
LUISA – Wanderlust
LUISA is a Scotland-based composer, pianist and producer who builds electronic pieces out of piano, beats, folk instruments and field recordings taken while living across Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaij…
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January 25, 2026 at 12:24 AM
LUISA is a Scotland-based composer, pianist and producer who builds electronic pieces out of piano, beats, folk instruments and field recordings taken while living across Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine and Albania as a military spouse. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/24/l...
Night Wolf comes out of the cinematic side of electronic music, the kind that already lives half in trailers and title sequences. For Lost My Way Home he pulls Norfolk singer Lois Powell into that world... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/24/n...
Night Wolf + Lois Powell – Lost My Way Home
Night Wolf comes out of the cinematic side of electronic music, the kind that already lives half in trailers and title sequences. For Lost My Way Home he pulls Norfolk singer Lois Powell into that …
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January 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Night Wolf comes out of the cinematic side of electronic music, the kind that already lives half in trailers and title sequences. For Lost My Way Home he pulls Norfolk singer Lois Powell into that world... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/24/n...
The Iddy Biddies started at Berklee chasing hooky indie with a folk/Americana backbone + story-led lyrics. On The World Inside, it’s all public masks vs inner life. Out 06 Mar 26.
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The Iddy Biddies – The World Inside
The Iddy Biddies started out at Berklee chasing a pretty specific lane: hooky indie songs with a folk/Americana backbone and story-driven lyrics. On The World Inside, they lean into that idea. The …
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January 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The Iddy Biddies started at Berklee chasing hooky indie with a folk/Americana backbone + story-led lyrics. On The World Inside, it’s all public masks vs inner life. Out 06 Mar 26.
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/19/t...
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Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen has been building a catalog about distance, memory and home. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/19/i...
Ivelisse del Carmen – Mi Sangre Baila
Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen has been building a catalog about distance, memory and home. After more than twenty years away from the island she finally started calling her…
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January 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen has been building a catalog about distance, memory and home. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/19/i...
Omnesia call their thing “future vintage,” and it fits. The Oakland project built around androgynous vocalist Medella Kingston and producer/guitarist M2 treats rock history like a toy box...
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Omnesia – “Dirty Love”
Omnesia call their thing “future vintage,” and it fits. The Oakland project built around androgynous vocalist Medella Kingston and producer/guitarist M2 treats rock history like a toy box: Zappa, n…
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January 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Omnesia call their thing “future vintage,” and it fits. The Oakland project built around androgynous vocalist Medella Kingston and producer/guitarist M2 treats rock history like a toy box...
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/o...
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/o...
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/d...
David Kovacs – I try to breath in a Vortex
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. The album p…
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January 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/d...
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/a...
Atsushi Matsumoto – Études
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered,…
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January 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/a...
Artomático makes electronic music like a percussionist who got lost in a lab. The Spanish composer and drummer builds tracks from small repeating details, treating rhythm, texture, and sound design as the main characters. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/a...
Artomático – CICLOS
Artomático makes electronic music like a percussionist who got lost in a lab. The Spanish composer and drummer builds tracks from small repeating details, treating rhythm, texture, and sound design…
cinematicgiants.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Artomático makes electronic music like a percussionist who got lost in a lab. The Spanish composer and drummer builds tracks from small repeating details, treating rhythm, texture, and sound design as the main characters. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/14/a...
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and then got pulled sideways by every strange idea in the room. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/07/m...
Map of the Woulds – “Goldilocks Zone”
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and the…
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January 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and then got pulled sideways by every strange idea in the room. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/07/m...
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around melody. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/07/s...
Sheila Rafferty – “Soaring On”
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around mel…
cinematicgiants.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around melody. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/07/s...
Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes.
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Ryoka Hagiwara – “In A Haze”
Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes. “In A Haze,” …
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January 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes.
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/06/r...
cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/06/r...
The Ghostly Pulse is the project of Cologne-based musician Nik Nova, who’s been building a lane around slow, shadowy tracks that blend trip-hop, post-punk and film-score mood. “Oh Heavy Rain” is a good snapshot of that approach... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/05/t...
The Ghostly Pulse – “Oh Heavy Rain”
The Ghostly Pulse is the project of Cologne-based musician Nik Nova, who’s been building a lane around slow, shadowy tracks that blend trip-hop, post-punk and film-score mood. “Oh Heavy Rain” is a …
cinematicgiants.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The Ghostly Pulse is the project of Cologne-based musician Nik Nova, who’s been building a lane around slow, shadowy tracks that blend trip-hop, post-punk and film-score mood. “Oh Heavy Rain” is a good snapshot of that approach... cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/05/t...
RMHNDRX has already proved he can do sharp, anxious electronic pop with YUKS, but The Hole sits in a quieter corner of his world. It feels closer to someone working late with the lights low, following half-formed ideas and stray memories instead of hooks. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/03/r...
RMHNDRX – The Hole
RMHNDRX has already proved he can do sharp, anxious electronic pop with YUKS, but The Hole sits in a quieter corner of his world. It feels closer to someone working late with the lights low, follow…
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January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
RMHNDRX has already proved he can do sharp, anxious electronic pop with YUKS, but The Hole sits in a quieter corner of his world. It feels closer to someone working late with the lights low, following half-formed ideas and stray memories instead of hooks. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/03/r...
Sentimental Magic Cape - Live” drops you straight into its pocket.. The bass comes in first, springy and upbeat, with a clear funk streak that instantly gives the track motion and a bit of swagger. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/03/e...
Eyal Erlich – “Sentimental Magic Cape – Live”
“Sentimental Magic Cape – Live” drops you straight into its pocket. The bass comes in first, springy and upbeat, with a clear funk streak that instantly gives the track motion and a bit of sw…
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January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Sentimental Magic Cape - Live” drops you straight into its pocket.. The bass comes in first, springy and upbeat, with a clear funk streak that instantly gives the track motion and a bit of swagger. cinematicgiants.com/2026/01/03/e...