M3G’s new single "De-Anchored" arrives with the sudden, unsettling chill of a cold draft in a locked room. The Chippenham singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has spent the last four years quietly honing her craft on local live circuits, but this release forcefully drags us out into the open sea. https://open.spotify.com/track/0qumUCsQRjs9dnN1KnNuBl?si=6d50b88ab85c45e1 It starts with a deceptive kind of comfort. A gentle, rhythmic acoustic chord progression rocks steadily back...

Dylan Forshner's new EP, “Hopeless Optimism,” presents itself not so much as a collection of songs but as a series of candid diary entries set to intricately picked acoustic strings. This five-song journey from the Welland, Canada artist begins in a place of palpable internal wrestling, where the lyrics – and Forshner’s delivery – map out the grim territories of being overwhelmed, using substances...