With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

Del'Noire, the solo act of Matyascorvinus, isn't handing you a neatly wrapped package of sounds with "Tyler Down." Instead, it's more like finding a worn map tucked inside a book you forgot you owned. This single, a purely instrumental affair, wrestles with the echoes of trauma. Not your kind of predictable musical trauma either. No cheesy lightning strikes. No predictable sad violin. Here it...