WAIN’s debut EP, "Still Colorful", arrives not as a singular declaration but as a meticulously curated gallery of the self, with one man acting as architect, painter, and lighting technician all at once. It’s an unusual feeling, listening to it. You get the sense that you’re touring a house designed and built by a single, obsessive artisan, but where every room is inhabited by...

There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from scrolling through endless bad news. It is a heavy, static feeling that makes it hard to care about anything. Then a track like "I Will Follow" hits your speakers and suddenly the air feels a little lighter. Jacob Chacko has managed to capture that exact moment when you decide to stop doom scrolling and actually...