Joshua Khan

1 month ago | clashmusic.com | Joshua Khan

Jessie Reyez’s perception of ambition needs to be studied. She is still a work-in-progress, she admits during a call on the eve of releasing her new album ‘Paid In Memories’, but it’s a learning curve and for the Toronto R&B force, the tangible not being enough is a byproduct of her design. Her genre is still Quentin Tarantino; her Colombian parents are still her personal heroes; and her love for Frank Ocean is as real as the piano that lines ‘Chanel’ and its raw exploration of duality.

1 month ago | clashmusic.com | Joshua Khan

“I know I told these tales for many years now, I feel it’s time to set my story free,” says Yukimi Nagano at the halfway point of her debut solo project ‘For You’. It’s a fitting thesis for the Little Dragon melodist, an alternative artist’s favourite artist who has spent nearly two decades refitting electronic-leaning pop music to be a medium that levels your headspace with abstruse grooves, textures, and emotions.

2 months ago | clashmusic.com | Joshua Khan

No one does atmosphere like Jillian Banks. For a decade, the L.A. singer, known as BANKS to the masses, has turned alt-R&B into a transformative Musée d’Orsay piece – reworking club confessions, ‘Thursday’-like highs, and hazy SoundCloud pop into a wide range of outré beats.

Dec 19, 2024 | clashmusic.com | Joshua Khan

Samara Cyn is making a concerted attempt to recontextualize rap music. The Los Angeles via Murfreesboro, TN native’s sound is so cathartic it daydreams in ‘The Score’ and ‘Food & Liquor’, favoring authenticity to create a catalyst for healing and coping that is more alert, more complex, and more attuned to messy feelings and being “a cold piece of work”.

Nov 3, 2024 | polygon.com | Joshua Khan

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure isn’t your typical murder mystery game. Instead of being a half-baked Choose Your Own Adventure, Double Exposure is an intuitive and mostly player-driven psychological drama that rewrites the dialogue between an artist and an audience, and which invites its own audience to investigate the importance of self-acceptance.