Tag: Faded Love from Mi'Kael Chalyce

“Cowards and Shadows”: Fiona Amaka’s Bold Vanishing Act.

Fiona Amaka’s new single, “Cowards and Shadows,” doesn’t kick down the door; it slips the lock and vanishes into the night, leaving the chain on. There’s a particular London cool to this departure, a swagger in its disappearing act. The track's lauded Bowie-esque posture is immediately apparent, thanks in no small part to Andy Zanini's sharp, stalking guitar work. It’s less a gentle fade...

Natasha Unpacks Pain in “Life’s Little Tragedies.”

Natasha, out of K.C., presents her new single, “Life’s Little Tragedies,” and it’s rather like an old, slightly melancholic tune you half-remember, then it snags you. The folk-jazz-pop tapestry, woven with soulful cello and unvarnished acoustic guitar, creates an atmosphere that’s chill, certainly, but with an undercurrent that pulls you in to listen closer. https://open.spotify.com/album/1IZqhutFIL4aVNVMTH4h7m?si=rCWdvIjKSsqWV7ok9_aBzA The song unpacks how present pain—a romantic betrayal, the rotter—can yank...

Love’s Slow Rain: Mi’Kael Chalyce Finds Her Sun in “Faded Love”

Sometimes healing sounds less like a whisper and more like a storm—a sonic reckoning that blows through the debris of old wounds, scattering the...