Allegra, the London-based singer-songwriter, once known for her dance-pop hits, has delivered a new single, "Refund" which is part of an EP released last year titled “Unsent Love Letters Vol1.” Turns out, emotional bankruptcy can be surprisingly... catchy? https://open.spotify.com/track/4OW5jcebS3AgdshIxSBNo0?si=6dcb8cb58b164fd9 "Refund" is all about demanding emotional recompense. Did someone say, 'auditing the ex'? Our speaker in the song has decided that 'I want my time, energy, and...

Listening to Elena C. Lockleis’s new single, “Mind - Vs. - Heart,” feels like witnessing a civil war fought entirely within a single nervous system. The sound is an intimate knot of pop architecture, the kind Julia Michaels patents in her sleep, where a confession arrives not as a ballad but as a skittish, rhythm-driven pulse. You feel the frantic heartbeat right there in...