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Nika Kretov

Nika is a writer interested in underground music, visual culture, and artists who build a world around their sound. Her work follows atmosphere, subculture, and the details that make music feel alive, especially when it is theatrical, abrasive, genre-resistant, or strange enough to stay with you.

DEATĦ B¥ LØVE - 444 (Distortion Productions)

16 June 2026

DEATĦLØVE’s 444 is a dark, sensual, and cinematic debut that pulls electronic goth, industrial pressure, trip hop, and Middle Eastern textures into something unusually vivid.

Julia Greenberg - Born Sentimental EP (Magic Door Record Label)

12 June 2026

Julia Greenberg’s “Born Sentimental” EP captures folk music at its most human: raw, close, funny, mournful, and carried by musicians who trust the room they are playing in.

Joan As Police Woman - Real Life Evolution (Reveal Records)

11 June 2026

Joan As Police Woman revisits Real Life with new collaborators, deeper instrumental space, and a sense of motion that reveals how much room these songs had inside them from the beginning.

Wooden Overcoat - Hello Sunbeam EP (Self Published)

28 May 2026

Wooden Overcoat’s debut EP turns lo-fi psych, shoegaze haze, and basement-recorded warmth into something bright, uneasy, and quietly haunted.

Jacqui Hunt - Cycles (QUSP)

27 May 2026

Jacqui Hunt’s “Cycles” strips her electronic and dream pop history down to piano, voice, and grief, turning repetition into the song’s quiet emotional force.

Joan As Police Woman – I Defy feat. Krystle Warren (Reveal Records)

26 May 2026

Joan As Police Woman’s “I Defy” returns as part of Real Life Evolution, drawing its force from her close vocal, Krystle Warren’s entrance, and an arrangement that grows from worn intimacy into dramatic heat.

The Joy Thieves - No Anchor feat. Chris Connelly (Armalyte Industries)

18 May 2026

The Joy Thieves return with “No Anchor,” a Chris Connelly-fronted industrial rock single that turns isolation, moral drift, and collapse into something aggressive, precise, and hard to shake.

Julia Greenberg - Leaves (Magic Door Record Label)

15 May 2026

Julia Greenberg’s “Leaves” turns loss into something warm, plainspoken, and quietly hopeful, letting memory, humour, and live-room intimacy carry the song forward.

From The Tombs - Bring Your Own Hammer (Bring Your Own Hammer / Dimple Discs)

12 May 2026

Bring Your Own Hammer’s “From The Tombs” turns a harsh historical fragment into polished, melodic indie pop, giving a nearly vanished life movement, colour, and care.

Modesty Blaise - Melancholia (From Lo-Fi to Disco!)

11 May 2026

“Melancholia,” Modesty Blaise’s returning album carries its fullness easily, with careful songwriting, odd warmth, and enough detail moving through the record to make the 25th Anniversary remaster feel genuinely worth returning to.

Ecce Shnak - Vincent

Ecce Shnak - Vincent (Record Man, Records)

7 May 2026

Ecce Shnak’s “Vincent” moves with theatrical force, operatic vocal lifts, jagged rhythm, and heavy art-rock bursts, turning a smug antagonist into something strange, sharp, funny, and fully alive