Five songs. Seventeen minutes. A decade’s worth of emotional receipts. Vanessa Moussa’s self-titled debut EP finds the Sydney vocalist placing her own name on the cover after years of work alongside other artists. This compact indie folk and alternative blues release traces new love, heartbreak, hope, regret, then the choice to move on. Moussa enters this chapter with experience. ABC’s triple j Unearthed identifies her as...

British singer-songwriter Daisy Howard brilliantly captures the dizzying, maddening loop of an addictive relationship on her abrasive new grunge-pop single, "On and On". Trading her background in polished YouTube covers for a semi-nomadic life currently rooted in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Howard pivots into deeply personal territory. She leans heavily into alternative rock dripping with dry humor and exhausted self-awareness. Instead of romantically weeping over...