Manchester's own Joize throws us headfirst into a Friday night fever dream with his new single, "Nasty." And, boy, is it appropriately named. Not nasty as in, ew, gross. No. This is that electric slide-across-the-dancefloor-because-the-bass-just-possessed-you kind of nasty. Afro RnB, sure, but there are flickers of something a little…unexpected. https://open.spotify.com/track/01f7F7WKS6v8KAbEcBBJ3t The theme? Unabashed, unapologetic desire. The song unfolds in a single electrifying night. It's a brief...

Multidisciplinary artist Emily Daccarett maps out the strange, beautiful geography of grief and eternal devotion on her new two-track EP, "Another World". https://open.spotify.com/album/6nmbMkULCfCwQWtUitUnEm?si=QCMOCzaMQSmQvGjj5TE5JA We constantly talk about losing people, but we rarely discuss where that massive, suddenly homeless love is supposed to go. Daccarett, an artist who fuses couture training with a sharp cinematic vision, gives that immense emotion a pulsating, alternative-pop body. Written after the...