There is a distinct, intentional haze surrounding Boxwood Ivy and the new single, "Ever for Ever". While the artist chooses anonymity, hiding their face from the Los Angeles glare, the music itself is disarmingly exposed. It doesn’t try to impress you; it sits next to you on the couch and sighs, carrying the weight of a history that feels both personal and universal. https://open.spotify.com/track/6uuHsKs3LSOQGA1tYOW17X?si=6c5a78e318994442 The track...

She Becomes’ new single, “Necromancer”, has left me thinking less about music and more about the strange inscriptions one finds on very old gravestones. It’s a track that hangs in the air like November fog, built on guitars that feel like they’ve been dragged through damp, loamy soil and a bassline that has the coiled-up energy of a minor character in a Brontë novel,...