A city can teach a person how to carry noise. The Liberties, with its old trade routes and close communal pulse, has long carried dense human music. From that inheritance, Zak Coghlan appears to have taken not only a taste for melody, but a belief that feeling becomes sharper when placed inside a story that can stand up under pressure. “Lead Balloon”, his new single...

The song's emotional content—which revolves around feelings of attraction, enjoying passions, being enticing, and being seduced—makes it likely that it will remain stuck in your head. "Bare Options" is the name of Suki Bedeaux's latest single, which captures the raw and complicated world of romance and intimacy with its 'Alt Fusion' delivery and distinctively British sound. Bedeaux is an artist from Brixton, South London. Embracing unique...