Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...

A harbour can make a private decision feel ceremonial. Ropes loosen, the hull shifts, and the body learns that departure is sometimes less dramatic than staying put. That quiet threshold sits at the center of Dave Des and his debut album 'Catharsis Caught', a nine-track release that listens to change with the care of someone who has lived long enough to know that release rarely...