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Message To Bears Releases ‘Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts’
With ‘Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts’, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, better known as Message To Bears, offers his most expansive and emotionally resonant album to date. Released today via Lost Birds Records, the record is a masterclass in ambient-folk craftsmanship, built from quiet textures, slow surges, and cinematic patience.
Opening track “Turbines Over Oceans” sets the tone with a hush: layered strings, found sounds, and the first of many melodies that feel more like weather than music. As the album unfolds, from the plaintive brass swells of “Knots Tied in Grass” to the flickering beauty of “Half Light”, it becomes clear that this isn’t background music. It asks to be sat with.
The focus track “Capsize” is a standout: a delicate blend of folktronica and ambient orchestration, tracing the edge between surrender and survival. Strings, piano, and barely-there choral harmonies drift above a bed of field recordings (water, breath, static) all stitched together with ghostlike care. It’s a piece built for walking, for grieving, for starting again.
With Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts, Message To Bears continues his quiet ascent; a steady presence on the fringe of modern classical and electronic music, building worlds one whisper at a time.
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Two years ago, Naomi Aguilera walked onto my radar with EGO, an infectious soulful pop debut that made it impossible not to move. Fast forward to her debut EP Mosaïques, and it was clear she wasn’t just passing through. Personal, colorful, rooted in her Spanish heritage & Brussels upbringing, it even earned her a spot as Apple Music Benelux’s Up Next artist!
Now she’s back with BB ILY, marking the start of a new era. The bilingual single — French and English — is built around one of the most universal human experiences: that special connection that doesn’t need translation. Where EGO invited you to forget your ex on the dancefloor, BB ILY pulls you somewhere more intimate: with sultry beats courtesy of Turana, it’s a dance where gestures, whispers, sighs and the sound of a voice matters more than the words that come out of it… It’s sensual, a little mystical, and entirely her own.
First taste of Naomi Aguilera’s upcoming project Ojalá, due in 2027, it feels effortlessly catchy. This is the kind of track that casts its spell quietly, with interesting and unexpected rhythmic shifts in the verses, and a delicious chorus that lodges itself in your head before you even notice. By the time you do, it’s too late. But you won’t find me complaining about it!
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