Mārara, the debut album for the Parisian collective 15 15, is a concept record. Charting a day in the life on the fictional titular island, it's a bright, sunkissed record that expands…

Like many debutantes, 28-year-old Swedish songwriter waterbaby has spent a long time working up towards her first album.

"It's been a long journey with a slow burn," she says. "I've always been singing…

Danny L Harle's newly-released second LP, Cerulean, is, he admits, a "low concept album".

Following his super-conceptual first record, 2021's Harlecore, the 36-year-old English composer/producer —a well-known and well-regarded collaborator of…

The first album Japanese-raised, London-based musician Momoko Gill released was her 2025 collaboration with Matthew Herbert, Herbert & Momoko's Clay, a beloved work that was a RRR Album of the Week and…

The 26th Annual IPU Albums-of-the-Year Countdown.

"I'm an intense-ass person!" says Saya Gray.

Handling an interview whilst working out at the gym, the Toronto-born musical polymath speaks to The International Pop Underground's Anthony Carew from on-the-ground in Wellington, on…

Between his second LP, 2022's Estrela Acesa, and his new album, Pequena Vertigem de Amor, Brazilian songwriter Sessa became a father.

In conversation with Anthony Carew on The International Pop Underground…

For her new album, A Danger to Ourselves, Colombian composer, producer and songwriter Lucrecia Dalt wanted to make a record "exploring the voice and exploring honesty".

Having issued avant-garde records, made field…

The fourth album for Pickle Darling, the ongoing recording project of Christchurch-based songwriter Lukas Mayo, was announced under the name Battlebots. But, by the time the LP was released, that title had…

"I definitely don't feel strongly about anything else in my life as I do artmaking," says Alexandra Levy. The Montréal-based singer-songwriter, who records as Ada Lea, has released three LPs of wordy, twisting…