Martin Lloyd Howard has engineered a peculiar but entirely hypnotic time-slip on his new solo single, "Hidden Andalucia". Here is a piece of acoustic fingerstyle that defies basic gravity, built upon delicately plucked arpeggios that float above a soft, rhythmic bassline. https://open.spotify.com/album/5N48ROhSDPPCQiy8IOydGs?si=HAir8cZET7y9cg5r36PJQw As a classically trained English guitarist, Howard knows exactly how to manipulate the negative space between notes. He anchors the outer edges of this...

Right then, let’s talk about MYLEZ and the new single "Open Your Eyes". This track landed like a late-night text message you know you shouldn’t read but absolutely will – a compulsive throb of House music underpinning a familiar, aching plea. MYLEZ, apparently shaping sounds since the tender age of 13 up in Ter Apelkanaal, lays out a narrative here that’s raw around the...