With Deptford Sound Collective dropping "Give Me . Give Me . Give Me, I want it all", I found myself suspended somewhere between a Studio 54 dancefloor and a gritty picket line. It’s a jarring, delightful confusion. You expect the somber acoustic strumming of 1960s activism given the collective’s mission but instead, you are slapped awake by a wall of 1980s synth-pop. https://open.spotify.com/album/6ULaYdVEhxN7eK0w9AmHtL?si=qiJmIM0oR2GlZ7uC8idmyw The track hits...

Rob Giles, the singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist winner of a Grammy award, announces his 'Meditation Drive-Thru'. His solo efforts and association with Andy Summers of The Police as well as Lisa Loeb, among other collaborations have made his journey in music an interesting one. One would easily mistake it for Giles’ dusk phase. Having suffered five studio albums and encountered the turbulence of the industry, he took...