Press play and the room changes temperature. 'Make The World Stand Still' by Kaitlin Corbett Jones comes in with piano, strings, and a voice that sounds ready for the balcony seats and the person crying quietly in the back row. This is big-feeling music, but it is not messy for the sake of drama. Kaitlin Corbett Jones has the training to go massive and the...

Milyam’s latest single "Intimacy" seeps out of the speakers like an expensive, custom fragrance slipping beneath a heavy velvet curtain. Drawing on a genuinely sophisticated aesthetic, she merges dark pop with the atmospheric crawl of deep house to chart entirely new territory for R&B. The low-end groove hits with tremendous physical weight. It throbs. It paces the room. Riding just above that heavy pulse...