There is a specific, teeth-grinding exhaustion that comes from nodding politely while someone tries to rearrange your personality, and Shannon Darcy taps directly into that electrical current with "Control Freak". This isn't music for a quiet Sunday morning; it’s the soundtrack for the moment you decide you’ve run out of patience. https://open.spotify.com/album/4u1yUYOquwBrzzZAL6ckP4?si=Au4XrdyWSH-GQksLqc3SEg The track hits you immediately with its texture. It relies on a driving, fuzzy...

Ben Heyworth returns with "Image of Roads (Montana Mix)", a track that feels like watching a blueprint suddenly sprout wings and take flight. Collaborating with the members of Minorplanet, Heyworth a man whose history suggests he’s been sketching the Manchester indie skyline for years revisits an older acoustic skeleton and wraps it in something far more sinewy. It is "urban folk" that has decided...