Simon Smith

Video game composer legend Nobuo Uematsu has stepped outside of video games throughout his career, and his upcoming original work Merregnon: Heart of Ice is the latest example. The album is an orchestral storybook, narrated by Alicia Vikander, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. It tells the story of four characters on a quest, and the surface-level parallels to Final Fantasy are a knowing nod to the past. Nobuo Uematsu and producer Thomas Böcker are long-term friends and have been trying to work together for years. Finally, Uematsu’s calendar had an opening, and the rest is history!

Domestic bliss in Hawaii makes a pitch for the summer album of 2026.

If Annie Lennox and Heather Small taught today's generation how to write queer power pop.

An in-depth chat about how to juggle creativity, business, and personal values.

Vibralizer is the latest app to launch into early access on Steam, which leans into the world of music visualisation. I have extremely fond memories of playing music with Winamp and Windows Media Player visualisations on, whilst singing loudly as a teenager. Honestly, I’m still doing it at 42 years old, but the visualisation element of player apps has dropped away over the years. Vibralizer intends to bring them back.

Assessing risks, consequences and options for mitigation

The former first minister said she was "coming to terms with being married to someone she did not know" after Peter Murrell's guilty plea.

Electronic experiments, this time turning the Mediterranean Sea into an ambient world.

It's just after 9pm on a freezing cold Saturday night in January, and Jay and JB from French instrumental math-noise two-piece PNEU are setting up

The wise old owl sat in the oak The more it heard, the less it spoke The less it spoke, the more it heard And that's how it became the wise old bird