Listening to Zov.yay’s new single, “No Watches,” is like catching yourself forgetting what day of the week it is, and then deciding you quite like it. There’s a distinct feeling of unshouldering here, a shedding of temporal anxiety. Zov.yay’s flow is less a performance and more a conversation you’ve walked into, a comfortable, self-assured account of having arrived somewhere important without having watched the...

Jonathan Armand is the true name of Gennaro, although he was given the stage name Gennaro when he was born on June 20, 1990, in Aix-en-Provence. Gennaro picked up his first guitar at the age of 16 years, having been lulled to sleep by the impact of the French chanson and worldwide music. Gennaro is a student at a lycée, and while he is there,...