Shi-N0bi completely caught me off guard with "Something about you", delivering a bright, driving rush of blood straight to the head. Operating from a home studio in Musicity, Ireland, Shi-N0bi poured three months into building these dynamic instrumentals from scratch in Fender Studio Pro, meticulously breathing life into the vocals via Dreamtonics Synthesizer V Studio 2. https://open.spotify.com/track/3guXPWjDZxLprei4JfvOdw?si=A9T1t29WTi6egzlda7irLg Far from leaning on automation, genuine human heart...

A city can teach a person how to carry noise. The Liberties, with its old trade routes and close communal pulse, has long carried dense human music. From that inheritance, Zak Coghlan appears to have taken not only a taste for melody, but a belief that feeling becomes sharper when placed inside a story that can stand up under pressure. “Lead Balloon”, his new single...