Listen: Run by Molly Mogul

Originally hailing from the small German village of Ammersee, near Munich, Molly found her voice after her father accidentally signed her up for choir. Her vocal work gradually shifted from feeling like an obligation to a calling and a deeply personal practice. Molly moved to Bristol for love at 19, but stayed to study art and became immersed in the UK music scene.

Mogul’s background led her to pursue a bilingual approach to her music, writing songs in both English and German, and to co-found Dirty Spread Collective, a queer and FLINTA-led (Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, and Agender) platform for experimental music and performance. Her pursuit for creativity eventually led her to complete a Master’s in Creative Performance Practice in Barcelona.

A debut album, itself written in Munich with long-term collaborator Niki (Young Hoffi) and produced with Yann Rose at Ciel Rouge Studios in Paris, represents the culmination of Mogul’s years spent travelling across cities, languages, and disciplines.

Single Run draws together Mogul’s love of modern pop and experimental soundscapes to create an emotive and atmospheric slice of music. Syrupy synths and fizzy bass wrap around vocals, creating a densely layered and disoriented feeling. This culminates in a soaring performance from Molly, as the song draws to its conclusion.

Describing Run’s creation, Molly says:

‘One of the first demos written on my own was written out of my camper van in Bristol. The song is a reminder that you can’t outrun your fears, and eventually the things you don’t look at will catch up with you, whether it’s in relationship with yourself or others. At the end, what’s left is yourself.’

Check out Run below, and lookout for the forthcoming album, A Bouquet Of Hopes And Dreams, on 30 April.

Watch: Vision by Snake Orange Cake

Following on from her hypnotic BlackPlastic.co.uk debut, Stitch, from last year, Berlin artist Snake Orange Cake has just unveiled the new single Vision.

Snake Orange Cake, the musical pseudonym of Julia Carlsson, deals in similarly textural, collage-like soundscapes on here as she did on Stitch. However, where Carlsson previously embraced distortion, on Vision she deals in clipped percussion and minimal melodies that weave together a melancholic soundscape. Droplets of sound evoke the feeling of trickling water as deep pulsing bass forms an anchor for the overall song. The result feels perfectly constructed for the currently slow and frozen January many of us are experiencing.

Vision comes with a video, filmed by Maren Frey in Berlin. Arriving on shortly after 2026’s arrival, Vision invites the listener to stare into a crystal ball and reflect on what’s next.

Listen: Selfish by Sofi Vonn

Coming ahead of her forthcoming EP, Lucky With A Side Of Depression, NY artist Sofi Vonn’s new single Selfish is a slow-moving piece of emotive electronic R&B.

Opening with a vocal that depicts a dark dose of introspection, Selfish rides a minimal aesthetic. Clipped percussion, electronic bass tones and synth notes create a sense of uneasiness, as Vonn sings of giving into self-centred tendencies. The overall effect shuffles with a creeping sense of emotion, oscillating between desire and a kind of self-evaluation and criticism.

Vonn has created a piece of music that feels stripped naked and guilty — the embrace of dark desires that you know lead only to trouble, yet feel all the more alluring for that fact. Peaking synth melodies nudge Vonn forwards as she commits to fulfilling her selfish instincts.

Check out Selfish below, and look out for Lucky With A Side Of Depression from 12 December.

Listen: Heavy World (Remix) by Nik Brinkman

Following on from his sophomore solo album, World Within, which is made up of indie dream pop, Nik Brinkman has remixed his own song, Heavy World, creating the tight electronic reimagining you can hear below.

Having spent years in bands, publishing and touring with the likes of Beach House, Ladyhawke, and Foster The People, as well as writing music for other artists, Nik Brinkman has returned to the relative simplicity and authenticity of guitar-based music. Those acts — particularly Beach House and Ladyhawke — can be heard, respectively, in the original and remixed versions of Heavy World.

Taking the central refrain from the original, Nik’s remix re-filters the melodic hook from Heavy World’s chorus, giving it a new life here, set against lightly processed vocals and warm, elastic bass. The result reminds me of Neon Indian’s blend of indie pop and electronics, particularly on their underrated Era Extraña album. This is music that sits at the perfect intersection of electronic, indie and pop, creating a blissful, psychedelic blanker of sound. Towards the end, Brinkman’s vocals and layered and looped as distortion and synth swallow the listener whole, creating a wonderful feeling.

Listen: X-Ray by The Notwist

Having spent recent years pursuing a form of musical experimentation, notably in the form of 2021’s improvisational, jazz-influenced album Vertigo Days, German outfit The Notwist are back with a renewed focus on creating pop songs.

With a new album, News From Planet Zombie, forthcoming next year, new single X-Ray is a preview of what to expect. Whilst not perhaps pop in the sense that is going to bother the top of the streaming charts, there is a psychedelic sense of wonder in the song’s cacophonous melodies and the innocent sound of Markus Acher’s vocals.

Shifting back and forth between playful nostalgia, and dark waves of layered distortion, X-Ray audibly sits somewhere between hope and terror. Guitars screech, a metallophone builds a sense of child-like curiosity, and loose drums patter. X-Ray is a wonderfully sloppy collage of sound, like heading to space in the rocket from a child’s drawing, wet pitch-black synths eventually swallowing you up like a black hole.

Check out X-Ray below, and look out for the album News From Planet Zombie, due via Morr Music on 13 March 2026.