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Luna Rosa - 'The Remixes' EP Review

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  Upon the cover art: "Aiden found a vintage photo store in Canada, and they just had all these amazing polaroids from around the world. We just really loved this one and felt it fit with the songs. The photo tells a joyous story, just a guy dancing alone in his living room drinking a beer, what more can you want!"  Guitar music has strangely enough always fitted perfectly alongside the underground rawness of electronica. Both have the capacity to achieve astounding levels of heaviness and euphoria, and the consolidation of the two through genre fusion and remix go hand in hand. Typically alternative guitar acts like Foals and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are consistent in their inclusion of remixes of original songs and projects, with more recent acts like Fontaines D.C and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard following suit. Luna Rosa are a band constantly chasing new sonics, so their latest effort ‘The Remixes E.P’, which follows this same format, comes as no surprise.

Katus Myles Switches RnB for Gritty Road-Rap on Recent Single CNF

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  ' CNF' - Katus Myles. Artwork by @vicmoy _ & @sixela.xo Birmingham prodigy Katus Myles may be known for his slick, infectiously harmonious RnB songwriting, but recent single CNF perfectly exhibits his ability to shift from romantic slow-jams to gritty rap with lo-fi hooks and even grittier lyricism.   Coming straight off of the release of his 2022 EP The Inbetween , Katus’s newfound style sees him temporarily laying his avant-soul, hip-hop oriented pop stylistics to the side, instead opting for a sound that gives room for refined wordplay and harsher vocal inflections. CNF is Myles’s exploration into grimy road-rap, tinged with a signature soulful presence that seamlessly creeps its way into the chorus with a memorable vocal hook. Myles in fact manages to weave melody into the fabric of all of his songwriting, even on a track as diverse as CNF - combined with an effortlessly raw-sounding looped brass sample, the track takes on its own distinctive voice entirely.