Monthly Archives: August, 2024

Riri Rose refuses the sensible exit on “I Don’t Want That Colour,” an indie-rock single about loving someone so completely that the affection starts chewing through the walls. The Lincolnshire songwriter, raised in a small village and singing her whole life, formally began making music in 2023 to work through a severe health flare-up that derailed everything. She draws from that lived journey and...

There’s a particular kind of crush that only blooms across a crowded family kitchen, and Anacy turns that forbidden glance into a five-year saga on “Brother’s Friend.” The Cape Town indie pop artist, who folds her multicultural background and spiritual beliefs into catchy, funk-pop production, traces the whole arc here: seventeen and dizzy, then confused, then quietly gutted by mixed signals, broken trust and...