The Austin-based songwriter Alex Winters turns the terrifying act of emotional surrender into a towering alt-rock confession. There is a specific kind of silence that occupies a room right before a heavy truth is spoken aloud. It is thick, suffocating, and entirely self-imposed. We build fortresses out of our past traumas, stacking bricks of deflection and mortar of avoidance to guarantee nothing can ever hurt us...

Based in rural west Cornwall, Nell Davies is an indie musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. When it comes to her music, she's influenced by artists like the Buzzcocks and Sleater-Kinney, as well as Helen Love and Helen Love and Sleater-Helen Kinney's Love. https://soundcloud.com/nelldavies To depict a story of shattered adolescent passion at an indie disco in the 1990s, her debut track, "Kurt and Courtney," combined punk...