Father Daughter, or Dame Zina, in short, is an enticing electronic pop group. Their initial debut album, “Emerald Eyes,” dates back to 2020, and they now have a good fan base. They create a sonic space that engages themes of music, womanhood, liberty and acceptance. This is a fourteen-track album, trying to unwrap Dame Zina’s dreams and words. It is an album talking about the wish...

There is a specific kind of quiet you find in the Midwest, and listening to Derby Hill and his self-titled release, "Derby Hill", feels like stumbling into that quiet after a long, noisy shift. It’s not the silence of emptiness; it’s the silence of after. After the argument, after the paycheck clears, after the sun goes down over the Detroit skyline or a Chicago...