A Night Walk in The Underground Forest - October 2025
Welcome to A Night Walk in The Underground Forest - a curated collection of underground electronic, pop, and alternative music.
Featuring Molly Stone, Magdalena Bay, Willzee, Allegories, JEEN, Zkeletonz, Glassio, Loren Berí, Sword Tongue, MayKay, Nick & June & Owen Pallet.
This week's edition features: a beautifully strange, celestial soundscape that could be from a VHS tape of a long forgotten cult; a song that sounds like it is from a haunted theatre in the 1970s; a song that shimmers with lust; a devastatingly beautiful soundscape that explores mortality; a song with an eerie bassline that possesses the self contained addictiveness of some of the best pop songs; a song with some deliciously dark alt-90s vibes; a song that celebrates the artist’s Traveller heritage; a DIY pop song that sounds like it is was unearthed from a mysterious and previously unknown artist from the early 00s; and more!
A Night Walk in The Underground Forest 🌙 Synth Pop • Electronic Pop • Alt Pop & Electronic
Magdalena Bay - Paint Me A Picture
Magdalena Bay are one of the most imaginative acts in music today; unparalleled in terms of the sheer scale of their unbridled creativity and rich sonic landscapes.
Paint Me A Picture is paired with celestial, otherworldly paintings by Parker Steven Jackson (who was a concept artist on Jordan Peele’s Nope), that immerse you even further into the off-kilter world of the music.
The sonic landscape is beautifully strange, with an out of this world feel to it, the synths possessing a malfunctioning VHS quality to them - Mica’s vocals being as hypnotic as ever. This feels like it is from a VHS tape for a long forgotten cult that discovered a shimmering portal to another dimension. A masterpiece.
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Molly Stone - Just a Girl
This new release from the London-based singer-songwriter is understated; possessing the subtle, irresistible power at work in some of the very best of pop songwriting. The instruments have an almost percussive quality to them, with an eerie bass droning underneath, the vocals floating above.
I really like the fact that the song allows itself to be contained, without any massive drops, subtly building as the song progresses, keeping you in an iron grip throughout, wanting more.
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Allegories - Baker's Lung
This opens with a searingly beautiful and vibrant soundscape, with the words “your body will fail”. The vocals are mournful, yet ethereal, the instrumental feels like it is cycling through moments of time, of memory. This deals with the subject matter of mortality - the instrumental building and building until it consumes you completely.
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Willzee - Travelling Man
I first came across Irish artist Willzee with the 2020 release Dear Friend II, in which one of the opening lines “Tell me why we were left here”, is resoundingly powerful, in a way that very few lyricists can achieve with just one sentence.
This new song from the artist demonstrates his unsurpassed skill and understanding of rhythm and poetic lyricism, celebrating the artist's Traveller heritage, flowing over a beat that incorporates traditional Irish folk music elements.
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MayKay - Let That Boy Know
Taken from the prolific MayKay’s new album of the same name (which you can purchase via Bandcamp here), Let That Boy Know opens with some fun, slightly camp drums paired with hypnotizing vocals; this oozes with lust, you can almost feel the summer heat rising from the concrete.
The chorus is addictive, giving some serious mid-00s earworm vibes.
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JEEN - Look What You Did
This has a bit of a witchy 1990s vibe - blended with some DIY alt-pop. The vocals have a stream of consciousness quality to them, which gives the song a feeling of raw vulnerability and authenticity. Look What You Did sounds like it is from a previously undiscovered album from a mysterious alt-pop artist from the 1990s.
On the song, the artist says, “At the end of the day, it’s a pop song so I just wanted it to be light and easy to sing along with but hopefully still have some teeth/grit. It’s about being entranced by someone or something and following that feeling all the way, even though you can’t see where it will lead yet. I’ve had to learn a lot of hard lessons in this industry and 2025 tested me more than ever on that front, but for the first time in a while, I’m happy I’m still here, even if I have to follow a bit blindly for now.”
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Zkeletonz - OUT!
Photo by Laura McLaughlin
I love the animated music video for this; the opening kind of reminds me of the animated series The Kirlian Frequency, and of the music video for Pleasure This Pain. This brings you into the eerie, Halloween soaked world of the song, flavoured with some serious funk vibes.
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Glassio (feat. Loren Berí) - Al Pacino
Utterly divine strings open this, as heavenly as the opening score of your favourite old Hollywood movie; before dreamy vocals cascade down to your ears from an endless blue sky. This is a sublime listening experience.
On the song, the artist says, “Al Pacino is a concept, an idea. He has worn many faces. Maybe this is a song about saying goodbye to someone in your life who negatively does the same."
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Nick & June - Husband & Wife (feat. Owen Pallett)
Photo credit Luka Popp
This sounds like a song playing throughout a haunted theatre; the vocals giving some serious 1970s/Twin Peaks vibes, with a luxuriously rich string section, making it all the more cinematic. I really admire that this authentically sounds like it could be from another time.
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Sword Tongue - MURDER WHITE NOISE
The theme in this reminds me of the SNL sketch Murder Show (although much darker and grittier). This is a tongue-in-cheek song that deals with having gruesome true crime-themed content on in the background, as a means of self-calming and escaping from the looming anxieties of the world.
This has a deliciously dark alternative 1990s vibe to it, ending with the lyrics “In order to sleep you need Murder White Noise/ You can't make it through without Murder White Noise/There is no relief without Murder White Noise/Anxiety peaks you crave Murder White Noise”.
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If you would like to be featured in the next edition, please email your release to eimear.o.sullivan@musicngear.com.
About Eimear O Sullivan
Eimear Ann O Sullivan is a multi-genre music producer, audio engineer and vocalist. After receiving a Masters in Music Technology from the CIT Cork School of Music, she went on to operate as a producer under the name Blakkheart. Her releases have received critical acclaim from Ireland's biggest music publications, such as District Magazine and Nialler9, alongside receiving heavy commercial radio airplay. She currently works in Cork recording studio Flashpoint CC. Previous clients of hers include the likes of Comedy Central’s Dragony Aunt star Candy Warhol, rapper Darce and Outsider YP. (Photo credit @Fabian Boros)
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