Keogea navigates the crushing weight of expected betrayal on his bleak new single "BROKEN PROMISES". The New York City artist combines alternative hip-hop and emo rap into an atmosphere that feels brutally, intensely isolating. https://open.spotify.com/track/1MdCkCvhslCrdlrkAopLFw?si=465d2fd6778247b5 He anchors the track with a somber, plucked melodic loop. It repeats endlessly, mirroring a mind stuck on a painful, inescapable thought. Underneath, a massive, rhythmic bass pulse hits like an...

On the new single “Under the Willow Tree,” 23 Fields the folk-Americana project of solo artist Step confronts the strange, yawning distance between who we were at seventeen and the people we eventually become. The track takes shape around a lively current of bright, resonant strumming and intricate, cyclic plucking. Before long, a gentle, pulsing thud locks into place beneath the intertwining chord patterns,...