Dan Wilkie’s sixteen-song album, "MelodyBox," arrives not with a neat bow but feeling more like an overstuffed cabinet of curiosities flung open by its Shefford-based creator. Wilkie, working solo as a multi-instrumentalist and producer, wrangles virtual instruments and real vulnerability into something uniquely his own, steeped in the melodic hooks of 60s/70s pop but often taking sharp turns down less-travelled, sometimes shadowed paths. https://open.spotify.com/album/0EX2aW7d7JSQ2xonrFDGvZ?si=XRwACPuoRW2vG_PAITRfyg The album...

Right then. The Bateleurs have dropped a new single, "For All To See," and it feels less like a simple release and more like someone throwing open the shutters on a sun-drenched Lisbon morning. This is Blues/Rock, clearly indebted to those early seventies giants, but carrying its own specific weight, its own regional accent humming underneath the swagger. https://open.spotify.com/album/3dGBpR6WGZ4bXJQjMqg5kh?si=9mA58maeTIOdopxn-cx9iA The track thrums with the energy of...