There is a surprisingly grounded gravity when Reigns and collaborating artist Waives deliver their new single "Closer Than Your Shadow", a release that catches you entirely off guard before swallowing the room. The track begins quite cautiously. Solitary, fragile notes repeat in a sequence of profound melancholy, dropping you immediately into that terrifyingly cold space of personal isolation. https://open.spotify.com/album/4vmfetQu8eJMEZclkyRh7F?si=kQv-B2DcRlWp2Jx2ptEFcA Then, the floorboards begin to rumble. Waives usually...

Jimmy Scott Free’s return with “Turn Back Time,” featuring the potent vocals of Kim English, is a peculiar kind of exorcism. It’s a track with a passport full of stamps—born of a Southend sensibility, aged in Barcelona, and now arriving on our shores—yet its emotional core is stuck stubbornly in a single, unchangeable moment. This is a song that tells you to dance while...