Seven Shades of Nothing’s new single, “When The Lights Go Down,” offers an incredibly peculiar form of comfort—it’s a soundtrack for deciding, over your third cup of lukewarm coffee, that perhaps global, society-dissolving collapse might actually be a blessed relief. James Cole, the project’s architect, doesn't sound panicked about the approaching end; he sounds incredibly, beautifully bored by everything that led up to it. https://open.spotify.com/album/0Z5K652TNvuB9fpt9Amdut?si=_mevo7tcSGunNpswpfCSsQ This...

Detroit’s Mike Chek, a subterranean staple who quietly pens chart-topping R&B hits on the side, leans completely into the emotional fallout of ambition on his new single "Alright", featuring guest artist TMI 215. https://open.spotify.com/track/3l7HsXZuLdXn3LFmVnSqHl?si=9835f9f41db44d8b It operates in the heavy air of an aimless 3 AM drive. You immediately catch a melancholic, plucked string loop that circles your head, setting an undeniably tired but resolute mood. Soon,...