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Meet GirlKing (real name Ntombinkosi Mncube), the South African gospel singer-songwriter on the rise, who’s music is a contemporary blend of soul, jazz and R&B.  Her debut album The Best Thing In The World comes out today, inspired by Mncube’s faith and relationship with God, but after listening to it …

Francois Klarke lives in Canada these days – but he’s spent plenty of time on the road over the last few years and his latest album, Adventure Book is an ode to just that.  The multi-faceted muso, who’s track “Always” was both featured in the Netflix film Feel The Beat …

When Will Linley says kill all my feelings he means it. His debut EP, which drops in the wake of a sold out SA tour and just ahead of a stint to Europe to support Matthew Mole, touches on just about all the feelings a boy can feel when navigating …

Honestly, it’s a pretty regular occurrence that you’ll listen to a song and, by the time it’s finished, realise you didn’t take in a single word. You won’t have this problem when dipping your toes into Jodie Reid’s latest album, the lyrically-driven and touching Echoes Exposed.  With honeyed vocals and …

With Book of Miriam, The Black Cat Bones set forth on a journey of sonic exploration that starts off somewhat bumpy but that finds its groove soon enough – and ultimately paints a complex but ultimately hopeful picture of the world. The opening couple of tracks, “Lungs” and “When I …

Aside from the sheer experimentalism of his chosen direction, Duncan Park’s next best trait is his driving consistency when it comes to releases. Another six months, another album. This time around he’s joined forces with Australian label Ramble Records for the release of his extensively unusual four-track album, In the …

Meet Jackson – a geographically elusive, genre-bending, jack of all trades who has turned his talent to just about every genre he could realistically throw together in his debut EP, Fairytales. On paper the idea might sound cluttered and clumsy but the result is quite the opposite. Where Jackson might …

His latest EP is called Bring Me a Musician and it’s safe to say that Conbad – the moniker of Pretoria-based musician and actor Conrad Rudolph – has done just that. Positioning himself as a one-stop-shop when it comes to hit-making, Conbad took it upon himself to play all the …

The concept behind Pirates of Radio is an interesting one: the members, who all live in different parts of the world, have never even made in-person eye-contact with each other. Instead they use the seemingly endless wonders of the internet to collaborate, and their debut album When Stars Collide is …

Luh’ra finds sentiments in simplicity in her new album, Nice. Minimalism is the name of the game here, as she navigates gorgeously balanced indie-soul parameters, with hints of hip-hop, R&B and jazz to keep things varied.  Nostalgic to a fault, Nice is mostly a narrative of heartbreak – and all …