Some songs arrive with a chorus built for the group chat. Shannon Darcy’s ‘Treasures and Gold’ comes in closer. This alternative pop rock single centres on a far less tidy feeling: caring about somebody who has repeatedly made you feel unwanted, then realising that their behaviour cannot keep writing your value for you. ‘Treasures and Gold’ shifts Darcy from the defiant heat of "Control Freak" into...

Some records do not ask for your attention; they simply demand it by speaking the exact truth you have been avoiding. Debo Ray does exactly that with 'Echoes and Embers', a four-track EP that hits like a sudden realization after a long period of denial. The Grammy-nominated vocalist takes the heavy, often unspoken reality of mental health struggles and spins it into a project that feels...