The Isle of Wight has gifted the world a rather singular musical legacy — from Jimi Hendrix's last great festival performance to the sun-baked folk of the island's own quiet traditions. It is perhaps fitting, then, that Kindred Found should emerge from this patch of salt-aired southern England carrying a sound that feels simultaneously rooted in deep American soil and utterly, unmistakably homegrown. *Fractured Hearts* is a debut album that doesn't announce itself with a fanfare. It simply kicks down the door, sits across from you at the kitchen table, and starts talking about heartbreak as though it has nowhere else to be.

Every so often a record arrives from somewhere entirely unexpected — not from the rehearsal rooms of Hackney or the coffee-stained studios of Brooklyn — and has the audacity to feel more necessary than anything the established centres of cool have managed to produce in months. *MomentuM*, the debut long-player from Ephemera Veil, is precisely that kind of record. Born in Slovakia, conjured by the pianist and vocalist Alexandra Cisárová, it lands with the quiet authority of someone who has absolutely nothing to prove and, for that reason alone, proves everything.