With his new single "Grandmas Kitchen", Kainine doesn’t so much drop a track as he does release a scent. You hear it immediately—not a sound, but the olfactory ghost of chicken foot soup steaming up a windowpane, a warmth that seeps through the cracks of a brutally cold narrative. The East London artist has built a world here where the ambient comfort of a...

Waiting for help can quietly become a way of delaying a decision. Rami takes that uneasy idea and gives it a clean, personal focus on “Save Myself,”. Classified as pop, art pop, and cinematic pop, the record begins with the feeling of being lost and unsure of what comes next. Its answer is not a sudden outside intervention. RAMI’s central idea is simpler and harder: the...