Ghosting rarely gets the courtesy of a final scene. Steph Casey gives it one anyway, filling it with overdriven guitar, drums, split-octave vocals and a chorus ready to answer back. “10,000 Hail Marys” is a grunge-pop and punk-pop single about the guilt left behind when a relationship ends in disappearance. Casey makes the unanswered message move at full speed, turning frustration into release. The Kapiti Coast singer-songwriter...

Open Horizon Records has returned with "Letting Go," a hyper-charged surge of emo-pop that turns romantic limbo into pure cathartic adrenaline. What began in Lancaster back in 2010 as an intimate poetry writing project has morphed into a solo venture where raw, lived experience meets AI-assisted vocals and instrumentation. The resulting collision is fascinatingly urgent. https://open.spotify.com/track/2I8Ianiecd4x0ULiKbIPnF?si=3ESGNN70T4Ksy6liy7I82w The single tackles that agonizing purgatory of waiting for someone...