Certain records arrive feeling less composed than *weathered* — shaped by wind, salt spray and altitude rather than a click track. "Tides of Stillness" is exactly that kind of object. Sixteen tracks deep and built almost entirely from guitar, it plays like a diary smuggled out of three very different landscapes: the high pastures of Switzerland, the cracked salt flats of Chile's Atacama Desert, and the grey, foam-lashed cliffs of southern England. Few lo-fi ambient records this year have travelled so far to sound so still.

Six strings and a silence worth listening to: this is the terrain Tony Sieber has spent three decades learning to walk without leaving footprints. "Echoes of a Reverie," the opening salvo from "Tides of Stillness," arrives less like a single and more like a held breath — the kind you take at altitude, or at the edge of a tide pool, uncertain whether to step forward.

Two minutes and twenty seconds. That's the entire run time of the most unguarded thing to drop into the inbox this month, and it tells you everything about the calculation Esteban Obando has made: say it once, say it plainly, and get out before the spell breaks.

Kampala has produced its share of restless, genre-agnostic voices over the years, but few arrive with the wounded candour Juice Patrol brings to "i lie." This single, built from little more than a home studio and a ukulele, manages the rare trick of sounding both threadbare and enormous — a feat that owes everything to the chemistry between Juice Patrol's vocal honesty and producer Jxsie Beats' deceptively gentle instrumental.

There is a particular kind of artistic courage that announces itself not through bombast or polished grandeur, but through deliberate, almost confrontational *refusal*. The Black Plague Doctors — Atlanta's Jo-Fi and St. Gabe, operating here under the shadow of their experimental alter-ego ZIllA — have made a record that refuses quite a lot. It refuses tidy production. It refuses the safety net of a DAW. It refuses, most thrillingly of all, the creeping tyranny of perfection that has rendered so much contemporary hip-hop sonically immaculate and spiritually inert.

'Adventures in Lo-Fi - Vol. 3' is a new release from the Berlin musician and producer HOLY B. The third part of his Lo-Fi adventures is composed of 7 original tracks in which the talent of the experimenter and inspirer of the electronic scene is palpable.

German band Random Dudes released a new full-length album 'Airdrop' on March 28. Their music catalog is growing, presenting us with a variety of genres, starting with indie rock and ending with disco and lo-fi.

bedroom dj is a music project from Ukraine that released a 4-track EP 'Side A' on December 23. The record was recorded in the act's home studio using electronic instruments and guitars.

The Australian musician and composer as well as producer Alec Shea has been based in Tokyo for the past four years where he is fully committed to writing and producing music for games, cartoons, sound designs and other exciting music projects.

American singer-songwriter Jade Moede shared a new single 'Ooo La La Rachel's Stuff' on March 11. Jade Moede is a great drummer and multi-instrumentalist who uses his creative potential for all 100 procent.