Acopia, an Australian trio formed by Kate Durman, Lachlan McGeehan, and Morgan Wright, could well be a forgotten band from 4AD’s 1990s catalog. Their career could have been that of a cult band, rediscovered by the Internet, which became an influence for a large group of new dreamy and esoteric rock bands. They still could be, of course. Their music demands it.
Two years after the release of their eponymous album, Acopia are not far from returning to the recording studio. On their new album, they continue to look to dream pop as their main focus. However, this time around, they look to baggy and hypnagogic pop as references to add to their already wide range of influences. These are songs made for us to feel, cry, and dance under the moonlight on a night that seems endless. An album that sounds like a special rave, a rave where dance music is replaced by mind-boggling guitars, dreamy and intimate vocals, and drums that make us want to dance like Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks.
What more can be said? What matters in the universe of Acopia is to stop and listen and feel. So be it.
MR

c-mm are a quartet from the outskirts of Lisbon. Gui, Matilde, João, and Diogo set out from the musical exploration of nervousness and memory to the diverse territories of what they find beautiful and remarkable, in the form of direct and intense songs, writing love letters to places, old friends, and window sills from which we sometimes find ourselves hanging. They got together in the early summer of 2023, initially as a trio, taking their definitive form as a quartet at the end of that same summer. Thus, continuing to compose in the form of adaptations of spontaneous improvisations (vocal and instrumental), the initial ideas that make up their debut EP, Dar a volta, released in January 2025, began to emerge.

Seven months after releasing two singles, Zé Gato and Chão Molhado, in a homemade format, they returned to the studio to record Dar a volta, a four-song EP that traces this short evolution and revealing a maturity and refinement in the composition and way the four operate, in more concrete and defined songs. Recorded over three days by André Isidro in his studio in Olivais, the work was mixed and mastered by Tomé Silva. These efforts translate into 12 and a half minutes of music in which c-mm say what they have to say about others and, above all, about themselves, with the only objective defined a priori being to deliver a faithful testimony to the inner reality of c-mm.