"Lightness and softness," Marylou Mayniel acknowledges, are the definitive elements of the songs she records under the name Oklou.

The 31-year-old Paris-based producer makes music that uses ambient sounds in pop-song format; employing…

In 2024, Alan Sparhawk —after 30 years and 13 albums with the band Low— released his debut solo LP, White Roses, My God.

Low had come to an end following the death…

After releasing six albums under her own name, Sharon Van Etten has issued her seventh record with the band handle Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory.

The billing reflects the making of…

Anna B Savage's new album, You & i are Earth, is about love. Love for a person, and love for a place, and how those two feelings can be interwoven together.

The…

When Ela Minus was at work on her second album, the image that kept coming to her was one of "turning a light on".

So, for her follow-up to her 2020 debut acts…

The 25th Annual IPU Albums-of-the-Year Countdown.

The third album for Vienna-based songwriter Sofie Royer is called Young-Girl Forever. Royer drew the name from an essay, Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl, originally published in 1999…

"All of everything that's written is about the cycle of life, in some ways," offers Laura Marling, philosophically.

The 34-year-old English singer-songwriter is speaking about her newly released eighth LP, Patterns in Repeat.

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"On stage, it's like my true self," says Chloé Pelletier-Gagnon, the 34-year-old Québecoise artist who records as Klô Pelgag.

"I feel like it's a safe space, [where] you can do anything you want…

"I don't think I can be an authority on getting older," says Naima Bock. "But it's kind of a nice crossroads, being in your late-20s."

The 27-year-old, London-based songwriter is talking about her…