With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

Mark Cee maps the quiet devastation of outgrowing love on his melancholic new single, "Missed Connection". Ahead of his forthcoming record, "It's Me, Mark Cee", the Long Island ambient indie-folk songwriter delivers a staunchly analog meditation on the weird, heavy stillness that settles into a room once somebody walks out for good. https://open.spotify.com/album/0SBHNHPARhjLh7xOANXSID?si=cFAY88x7TmSDD5WgKip5vA Defiantly rejecting artificial polish, Cee relies entirely on the unvarnished grit and honest...