Nottingham-based solo artist Euplasia has briefly stepped away from the intense realities of the NHS frontlines to deliver "Hallayoola", a hyper-colorful, foot-stomping indie rock single. After devoting years to fatherhood and public healthcare, you might expect his return to music to carry the heavy, exhausted weight of those environments. Instead, we get pure, unapologetic serotonin. https://open.spotify.com/track/1YJLFmaBVsQkyOzrvWpMOw?si=7de57aa7e02e49ba Following his recent drop "You Wonder" (which will also serve...

Violet Love has offered up an EP titled "Destined to Fail," and it arrives less like a prediction and more like a pre-existing condition, a medical chart for a soul that’s been diagnosed with itself. The DIY recording quality doesn’t feel lo-fi for aesthetics; it feels necessary, like these songs could only have been born in a sealed-off room where the air was getting...