Listening to Hazelize’s “Signal Lost” feels like trying to explain the color blue to someone who only sees in static. The song, born from a Rome home studio, chronicles a communication breakdown so complete it borders on the surreal. This isn’t the sound of a fiery argument; it’s the hollow hum of a dead line, the quiet agony of speaking a language only you...

There is a particular shade of electric blue that appears on the inside of your eyelids when you rub your eyes too hard, a colour that feels both artificial and deeply biological, and that is precisely where Vacant Shores and their new EP, "Vacant Shores", seem to reside. Jon Elliott, AJ ‘Sid’ Sidford, and Suzy Alderton have managed to capture something peculiarly British here;...