Series
Guide
THE ARCHIVE
Our series covering old releases you may not know, but definitely should.
NEW RELEASE
Our series covering new releases from our favourite small artists, and exceptionally good larger artists.
EDITORIAL
Our series where one of us writes opinion pieces on things we’re absolutely unqualified to talk about.
TASTEMAKERS
Our series with artist guest writers sharing what they’re listening to right now.
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December is always a magical month, especially if you live in a freezing cold wasteland like myself. Between the time with family, the beautiful lights, and the warm drinks it really doesn’t matter if you celebrate International Ninja Day on December 5th, there is reason no matter what to find joy and whimsy within this…
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By this point, I would describe Kuru as a household name in the underground. If you haven’t heard about him, you’re missing out. Following his come up over the past 5 years has been nothing but wonderful as a fan. His evolution alone is a testament to long term artistry. He has become so unapologetically…
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I found this song too early. Like way too early. Being an early adopter is one of the greatest joys you can have as an avid music listener and I’m not one to take that for granted, but I will also be the first to tell you that there’s a huge difference between stumbling upon…
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One of my favorite things about following small artists is observing the sort of “social cliques” that emerge naturally between them. It’s a super organic phenomenon that really just boils down to musicians wanting to know other musicians, but what’s so fun about it is that it really puts the six degrees of separation theory…
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Jane Remover is on the craziest run right now. Honestly, she hasn’t stopped running since Frailty if you ask me, but when Revengeseekerz came out, something shifted. The mix of experimentation and mainstream appeal hit all the right notes and the internet, Pitchfork, and Danny Brown all seem to agree. It has a finely tuned…
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An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about anything. It’s become a common occurrence among my social circle to utter the phrase “be kinder” to each other accountable for the horrible, terrible things we say and do. Granted this is a phrase drenched in irony, as usually the person who is saying it has said…
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The fun part about doing music journalism is that nobody gets to call you biased. When writing about music all of the silly little words I put on this page are subjective to begin with regardless of how much I frame them as fact, which is kind of a free pass for me to tell…
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[written the week before our content hiatus, so all time related comments are a week out of date] Spotify is witchcraft created by money demons who have set out to ruin the music industry. Bold words I know, but despite that it occasionally does me favors (much like the real devil). Somehow through searching for…
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When I first became embedded in the music communities that have now shaped my taste there was a small handful of names that were synonymous with the scene. The obvious ones are names like brakence, ericdoa, midwxst, but then there’s slightly deeper cuts like login, and notably 50landing. 50 has been a bit of an…
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I’m going to get the obvious out of the way. I absolutely love Christmas. I adore spending time with the people I care about, and as much as I’m not a huge believer in the commercialization of Christmas I am a huge believer in “I love giving people gifts, so capitalism can shut up about…
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They say timing is everything, and it’s moments like today when that couldn’t feel more true to me. If you’ll rewind with me for a moment, you’ll recall that last week I wrote an article covering pnkdrco’s move on! which came out this Monday. What you may not know is that the article was written…
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Did you wake up this morning and think to yourself, “wow my playlist is absolutely phenomenal, but it’s really missing a song that starts by making me think I forgot to leave a discord call”? If you did, please get help, but I by some bizarre means have something to fill your needs move on!…
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The best part about monitoring underground music is that you start to spot trends pretty fast as they develop, and recently I’ve had my eye on a very specific one. By sheer chance this week we released an editorial talking about how bringing back clubbing could fix all the things, which while being a loaded…
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An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about anything. I was driving down the highway on my way home from another long day at the ‘raising my blood pressure to concerning levels’ factory listening to my usual playlist when all of a sudden an epiphany hit me. See, I was shuffling through my usual eclectic…
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It has become a recurring concern of mine that I have set too broad a precedent for the kinds of music I want to talk about on AuraLink. Creating a blog with the intent to boost smaller artists is one thing, but I really have just been writing about anything I like regardless of consistency,…
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Dylan Longworth has a particularly special place in the AuraLink canon. You see, long before AuraLink was even conceptualized I previously wrote for a blog called Itasca, and during my brief time there I wrote about a handful of artists including Sneaker Kids, han.irl, and notably Dylan Longworth. In fact, the very first song I…
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I’m not gonna lie to you, it’s 9:40 in the morning, I’m standing in line for a new pokemon card drop like the nerdy gambling addict I am, and I’m listening to a track that feels somewhere between club ready complextro and the dubstep that sculpted my music taste through middle school. Needless to say,…
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An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about anything When I decided to start a blog my ethos was relatively simple: I wanted to cover smaller artists within a very specific range of genres. The lines for that range are a bit vague, but despite never coming around to the likes of glaive or 100…
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At this current moment in time, I am sitting alone on my bed with a single earbud in with one goal for my evening: to write as many articles as possible. I had an order of operations in mind as well: Write an article about Olga Myko, then one about ratking by bodyimage, then gamble…
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I write this message from inside my cozy little cave in the woods. It’s cold and damp, but it’s got good bones, a well stocked bar (a handful of half empty bottles sitting on a large rock), and great atmosphere. My only complain about my humble abode is that in the night I hear the…
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An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about anything 2020 was a monumental year for human civilization for one big obvious reason: the wealth of niche internet music that flooded all our feeds (and absolutely nothing bad happened all year). It was a time where like it or not the world was introduced to sounds…
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Ah yes, the well known 7 stages of cardinal grief sins: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, lust, pride, acceptance, and… sloth? Wait that can’t be right. Colliding With Mars (not to be confused with Jared Leto’s 0.008333 Hours to Mars) is an artist who’s always played a key role in sculpting the sound of what I…
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Let’s set the scene: you are sitting on your couch doomscrolling through TikTok when all of a sudden from next to you you hear a voice. “Hey babe?” utters your loving partner. As you begin to respond you mentally prepare for what question may follow this. Based of their social feeds you assume the obvious,…
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They say everyone is only 6 degrees of separation away from any other given person. The amount of weird connections to people and places we unknowingly make are numerous and far too complex to catalog, but it’s often brought to the forefront of our mind when something from the background of our past suddenly catches…
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Let’s set the scene. You’re waiting in line at the bank when suddenly the doors literally explode open. There’s rubble everywhere people are in shocked and confused, and amidst the chaos a man with a ski mask and a large burlap sack with a big dollar sign on the side walks through the cloud of…
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An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about most things. Most people if you asked them would argue intensely that they grew up in the best era of pop music. Obviously you’re bound to have some attachment to the music you heard on the radio during your formative years, it’s natural to feel like what…
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Saying that my Spotify algorithm doesn’t know what I want would be a horrific understatement of my current predicament. I’ve slowly been building a mental catalog of artists making this post-hyperpop blend of clean production with juuuust enough grit to keep my brain tingling, but much to the detriment of that search Spotify only seems…
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I would love to sit here and tell you I woke up today and found your new favourite album, but unfortunately that would be a lie. You see dear reader, as phenomenal as the new stecker project is, I have not gone to bed yet, it is currently 2:08 am, so I did not wake…
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Probably the only upside to being a marketing student at the same time as being an artist and running a music blog is getting to truly appreciate when I get to watch an artist I love do everything right. In the cold soulless world of marketing UGC (or User Generated Content) is a strategy in…
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An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about most things As you can imagine, running a music blog is about 75% rummaging through Spotify suggestions, 31% procrastinating, 17.4% stressing over absolutely nothing, and 100% not knowing how to do math. Contrary to me having gone on record before airing my distaste for short form content…
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If there are 2 things I say repeatedly to the extent that I get tuned out by those around me, its that: If you’re not a music producer or chronically into niche internet genres, that second point may make zero sense to you, so let me elaborate a bit. rot was the first single released…
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I think we all need a little more mystery in our lives. These days, we’re so connected to absolutely everything and everyone at all times that the concept of “wanting to know something and being unable to learn it” is a completely foreign concept in our everyday lives. It’s no secret that when writing these…
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I LOVE THICK CHORDS I LOVE THICK CHORDS I’m a big proponent of the idea that like it or not, hyperpop’s existence had huge implications on sound design as a whole with it’s effects spanning way farther than most people would expect. I’m such a large believer in this idea that should you continue to…
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![han.irl<3 – 404.wav [Review]](https://auralink.media/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ab67616d000082c1648ddb4975e433311e15f05d.jpeg?w=1024)
han.irl<3 is an enigma even within the niche of glitchpop and other post-hyperpop genres, and I am known to nerd out about her to just about anyone who will listen to me ramble. Compounding my pre-existing “problem”, her latest release 404.wav is a punchy addition onto an already extremely compelling album rollout that has kept…
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![Iglooghost – Bronze Claw Iso [Review]](https://auralink.media/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/5056818804151.png?w=1024)
Incase you needed a rabbit hole to throw yourself down today, here you go. Iglooghost is an enigma among artists, as not only is he an absolute visionary of a producer blending sounds and textures outside most peoples wildest dreams, but also as a storyteller. I was first introduced to his catalog years ago by…
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When listening to a label backed artist (think Blackbear, the weekend, huge names) we’re often greeted with songs polished to perfection by at times 10s of different people from producers to mix and mastering engineers and god knows who else. With small artists, the situation is a tad different, with the crew shrinking to a…
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Almost two years ago I went on a mini binge looking for a combination of music inspired either by early 2000s dance pop with a modern twist, or Phonk-inspired music that dropped the generic, played out formatting and had some fleshed out vocal content. Despite the fact that this was fueled by my need to…
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