Listening to Shani Weiss's new single, "What's Left," feels a bit like stumbling upon someone’s deeply personal, slightly crumpled packing list before a monumental journey. Weiss, a Melbourne-based folk-rock songwriter and host of Indie Spotlight Melbourne, bottles a very specific kind of pressure here – the internal kind that feels less like a weight and more like a rising tide inside your own chest. https://open.spotify.com/album/56VjWTwzCr3bafDHSlUpN4?si=SWijn37SREeVVhxTs26DsQ There's...

Kayla Marie Pulver steps into the shadow of "Indigo Night" not to displace the original, but to repaint the walls of its cavernous structure with a distinctly feminine, haunting lacquer. Covering a track known for its princely emotiveness is a bold move like deciding to re-architect a Gothic cathedral but Pulver strips away the grandiosity in favor of something far more insidious and creeping. https://open.spotify.com/album/4EXgEIzOqcCQSpspEhPhzY?si=QR_97jSCTem-5XnSium9aA The...