When you hear the name Stephen Thomas, you might right away think of Charleston, West Virginia, or maybe his own genre name, "Universal" As a label, it does not feel like a neat box. Instead, it feels like an open field where hip-hop and alternative pop music mix. His most recent song, "Breaking Hearts," sounds a lot like that. It utilises sounds from artists like...

Written by T. Brown captures a strange, beautiful contradiction on the new single, "The Way She Goes". T. Brown operates as a storyteller obsessed with how an underlying message survives when you twist the energy around it, and here, he drops a lesson in radical acceptance dead in the middle of the club. https://open.spotify.com/artist/73NZQtUd2aUs9g07O6pV3g?si=wqYDIpj6QQ-nmO9DGVe-8g The track rides heavily on a high-pitched, cyclical R&B vocal loop that...