Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

North-West England’s Olivia Booth is sweeping blades with every heart and ear after releasing her indie alternative pop accompanied by a slight degree of '90 nostalgia. Her latest single "Satisfied" is an exploration of relationships and the thirst for self-improvement. Olivia had just reached 16 years when her musical career took a new direction as she left for Brighton to study songwriting. This is where she...