” I guess ‘Tomboi’ is about tapping into both your masculine and feminine sides—and actually loving that mix. I feel it’s also a self-celebration of my Gemini energy, leaning into that duality and just owning it.”

“Tombol” is available on Spotify (and Soundcloud, below).

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“Ego” is on Soundcloud, embedded below. You can also find it on Spotify and Apple Music.

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This track is an ode to earning the paycheck. “9to5” has a summery, light hook that takes you right back to the blog era of rap. The production is silky smooth, and COLO’s delivery is the perfect match. Lyrically, COLO finds his sanctity in his time away from the grind. What’s life without living? This is a feel good track that’ll fit in with with best of summer rap.

If you’re feeling COLO’s latest, check him out on Spotify. While you’re there, give our Best of 2026 Hip Hop playlist a listen – you’ll find some great artists to get your summer sets rocking.

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Check out “Hyperspace Mountain” via the YouTube embed (below), or, stream it on Spotify.

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Check out the music video for “Never Better” embedded below. While you’re at it, check out our previous features of Robbery Club here and here.

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Outside of the dreamy “Exiting the Maze,” a sonic anchor made years prior in her childhood bedroom, Manke wrote the majority of the record during a temporary stay in Binghamton, NY. It is this very sense of impermanence that translates so well to the record’s sound. On tracks like “Nauseating,” for example, we’re met with a lovely combination of atmospheric pads and bright vocal layers atop a driving guitar riff and a beating kick, underscoring Manke’s understanding of space while reminding us the only direction of travel is forward. “Life Without You” similarly contrasts warm, hollowed out synthesizers with a guitar melody that, after multiple listens, underpins much of the record as a whole. It’s reminiscent of a 2006 Brittle Stars EP in this way, possessing a similar “returning-to” sonic quality that glides through genre. Hearing birds sing throughout only makes it that much sweeter.

Lyrically, Manke writes with an honesty and assurance that is very hard to teach, and in doing so, invites the listener to ask the very questions she seeks to answer. In “The Mold,” for example, Manke aptly and directly exclaims, “I don’t even know who I am or what I want,” as she reflects upon the malaise that can arise through inaction or indecision. Later on, in “Crustacean,” she grapples with the confusing experience of leaving somewhere familiar in an attempt to rediscover oneself, singing “I’m scared to move on / Yet it’s all I want to do.” It’s this very candor that underscores the honesty, warmth and brave curiosity laden across the record.

In I Want to Feel Like I’m Home, Manke has delivered an album that is in no rush to get to where it’s going, but gets there all the same. Sitting with a song or record that demonstrates this type of inherent patience invites the listener to do the same. The result is, when executed as well as Manke does here, an experience that leaves the listener asking their own version of the very question Manke explores throughout: Where does one go and what do they do to find themselves all over again?

Perhaps it’s less about knowing for sure and more about the question itself, allowing it to unfold with the quiet self-assurance most wonderfully reflected in the album’s last few stanzas: “Oh you’ll find your way / I know you’ll find your way.”

I Want to Feel Like I’m Home is available now (March 27) on Bandcamp. All the different ways to support both Mikayla and her band Spiria can be found here. 

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“We Don’t Care” is anchored by Showrocka, who handles hook duties in addition to having one of the three verses. Chi Sees and Fuego Base are the other recruits to this track – Chi’s charismatic delivery counters the droning vocal sample to provide a perfect balance, and Fuego’s fiery, gritty delivery snaps your ears to attention. “We Don’t Care’s” chorus turns the song’s namesake into a motto – anyone can catch this trio’s indifference to struggle stories. Not a lot of sympathy going around for rappers who saw the worst of it and came out the other side. This song drips with authenticity, the sample is unique and memorable, and you’re not going to hear a bad verse.

If you’re interested in more from this trio, check out Showrocka on Spotify. While you’re there, give our Best Hip Hop of 2026 playlist a listen – find some heat for your summer playlists.

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Throughout the track, he plays around with effects and synth bouncing off his vocals, underpinned by some light drums. It has bedroom pop vibes, but like if someone fell asleep with a Moog under their pillow (and it also turned out really good). It’s one of those introspective tracks that’s definitely not great for falling asleep to, but has the perfect amount bite to it for a Tuesday (unless you’re incapable of introspection, in which case, maybe see a therapist).

You can hear it below on YouTube as well as Spotify.

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You can hear “Young” below on Bandcamp as well as Apple Music and Spotify. The band has a decent back catalogue to check out so be sure to do that if you were diggin’ this.

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Mendoza’s lyrics sometimes seem hover above the synth and guitar while other times they mesh together as one. The level of polish is absolutely pristine and you’re in for a treat, especially if you’re into Siamese Dream era Corgan et al.

You can hear it below on YouTube as well as Spotify. The rest of the album, Questions I, is well worth the listen, especially if you’re into that dream pop vibe like I am.

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