Dreaming of Wanderlust ~ November 2025
Fresh releases for wandering minds and dreaming hearts.💫
Featuring Matthew C. Whitaker, The Paper Kites, Skinny Lister, Tessa Rose Jackson, ARK IDENTITY, Lecx Stacy, Dotsun Moon, Hector Gannet, Erin Shea Hogan, Humm, Ava Franks, Debra-Jean Creelman and Ruby Sparks.
Dreaming of Wanderlust 🌿 Calm Indie Folk · Folktronica · Indie Pop · Chamber Pop
Matthew C. Whitaker - Lucid Dreamer
Lucid Dreamer is exactly what its title promises: a gentle drift into a world of calm and wonder. Whitaker's voice floats beautifully over lush strings, soft classical guitar, and delicate electronic flourishes, carrying you into a cinematic reverie.
It feels like a story whispered just for you, a soothing escape in sound, perfectly hinting at the intimate reflections of his upcoming miniature album Songs for the Weary. Every note is a gentle invitation to pause, breathe, and let the music carry you somewhere beautiful.
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The Paper Kites - Shake Off The Rain
Photo Credit: Tim Harris
The Paper Kites offer a tender embrace with Shake Off The Rain, their latest single from the upcoming album If You Go There, I Hope You Find It.
Soft, heartfelt melodies and Sam Bentley's warm vocals carry you through the song like a comforting conversation: "Kick out the blues, shake off the rain", Sam Bentley sings - a mantra disguised as melody.
It's gentle and intimate, anchored in that familiar warmth of the Paper Kites. It's the song that finds you when you need it, and stays with you after it ends, like sunlight spilling through a window after the storm.
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Skinny Lister - Tumbling Into Something
Amidst the rollicking, sea-soaked energy of Songs From The Yonder, Tumbling Into Something is a serene pause. Lorna's vocals glow here, open and unguarded, gently wrapped with ambient accordion and hand-played drums.
It's an ode to surrender, to stepping into life without a map, and finding beauty in the blur.
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Tessa Rose Jackson - Fear Bangs The Drum
Tessa Rose Jackson is turning unease into something beautiful. Fear Bangs The Drum feels like watching your own worries take shape, dance for a while, and then dissolve. Beneath its playful brass and spectral textures lies something profound: the courage to let fear exist without letting it consume you.
It reminds you that everything passes, leaving you lighter and a little more at peace with your own shadows.
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ARK IDENTITY - I'm Still The Same
Photo Credit Maggie Kane
There's something beautifully grounding about I'm Still The Same. ARK IDENTITY (the dream pop project of Toronto's Noah Mroueh) captures that quiet moment when the world feels like it's shifting in fast motion, yet you're standing still, unchanged, watching seasons, people, and places drift by.
It unfolds like a soft daydream, wrapped in hazy guitars and gentle vocals. It lingers on the details most of us overlook: "crooked lines on the sidewalk, the twisting vines on a brick wall". Small pieces of stillness that somehow feel more meaningful when everything else is uncertain.
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Lecx Stacy - Winter, A Wilted Flower
Α fragile beauty hovers over Lecx Stacy's Winter, A Wilted Flower, a song that feels like memory itself: flickering, imperfect, but deeply alive. Written and recorded in his parents' house, you can almost sense the world around him in the background; a faint sound, a passing moment, as if life quietly seeps into the track.
His voice drifts through layers of folktronica and ambient textures, carrying the pain of someone who's learned that even endings can hold a kind of light.
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Dotsun Moon - Piano Trailer 5
From the Moments In The Sun EP, Piano Trailer 5 feels like a memory you can't quite touch; something half-forgotten but still tender. The Buffalo-based artist Dotsun Moon (Richard Flierl) builds an instrumental world that's entirely immersive, shaped by quiet reflection and the soft ache of time passing.
A tribute to Harold Budd and his collaborations with Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins, the piece unfolds like a distant echo - serene yet heavy with feeling.
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Hector Gannet - Until My Bonnie Can Be Revived
Photo credit: Vision Impact Photography
Hector Gannet have always carried the North East in their sound - the sea air, the working spirit, the stories that never quite leave the shore. Until My Bonnie Can Be Revived feels like a hymn to that place and its people; a deeply human song dedicated to the town of North Shields in its 800th year.
A sense of heritage is woven into every note. The brass, arranged by Jason Holcombe, and the tolling church bells give the song a ceremonial glow, as if the entire community were breathing through it. Frontman Aaron Duff's songwriting bridges the ancient and the modern, grounding loss and memory in something steadfast and hopeful.
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Erin Shea Hogan - By The Time It Gets Dark
Erin Shea Hogan reimagines Sandy Denny's By The Time It Gets Dark with a tenderness that feels like dawn after a long night. Her soft harmonium hum and gentle strumming breathe new life into a song that has always carried the pain of time passing.
Hogan's voice feels like comfort, as though she's sitting beside you, humming reassurance into uncertainty. Recorded with legendary engineer Julie Last, the song glows with warmth and reverence, not just for Denny's legacy, but for the simple act of slowing down, of breathing through the moment you're in.
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Humm - Tamlin & Joan
Myth and modernity meet in Humm's Tamlin & Joan, a song that unfolds like an ancient tale retold around a fire, yet pulsing with the emotion of now.
Arty Jackson and Carys Lewin's harmonies hover between earth and air, their folk-rooted instrumentation rising into a crescendo that feels almost elemental. The song builds and blooms until you're swept into its orbit, caught in its whirl of feeling, a sound that's both timeless and immediate, grounded and otherworldly.
Watch the live acoustic performance of Tamlin & Joan performed in ‘The Church of The Holy Trinity, here.
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Ava Franks - Every Day
Every Day is that first soft light of love - simple, radiant, and sincere. Wrapped in warm acoustic guitar and buoyed by Ava Franks' luminous voice, the song traces the moment where affection starts to bloom into something real.
There's a sweetness to it that doesn't overreach; it just glows quietly, in that space between uncertainty and hope, like holding someone's gaze a second too long, not quite ready to look away.
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Debra-Jean Creelman - Bloom feat. Kendel Carson
Photo credit: Molly Guldemond
Taken from her upcoming album Little Town (December 5th), Debra-Jean Creelman captures the fragile beauty of becoming - that bittersweet dance between what we've outgrown and what we're still learning to love.
Bloom sways with alt-country elegance, its fiddle and soft percussion enveloping her hypnotic voice.
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Ruby Sparks - Iris
Taken from the album of the same name - Iris is one of those songs that quietly settles into you. Ruby Sparks (LA artist Jake Sternberg) leans into a glowing mix of 60s pop colors and modern indie-rock warmth, but here he strips everything back just enough to let the emotion breathe.
The song unfolds like a confession; soft vocals, sun-bleached guitars, and a melody that feels both nostalgic and freshly hopeful. Sternberg wrote the album around the idea of creating beauty out of pain, and this title track captures that theme in its purest form: gentle, honest, and softly uplifting.
It’s a song about finding clarity in small moments, about letting vulnerability guide you instead of holding you back.
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About Eugenia Roditis
Eugenia's passion for music was ignited from an early age as she grew up in a family of musicians. She loves attending concerts and festivals, while constantly seeking fresh and exciting new artists across diverse genres. Eugenia joined the MusicnGear team in 2012.
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