Hearing Olivia Cox and her latest single "Made Friends" feels a bit like realizing your house is a mess and finally deciding that the laundry pile looks quite artistic exactly where it is. It is a soulful, strobe-lit confrontation with the realization that we rarely, if ever, actually have our hands on the steering wheel of life. https://open.spotify.com/track/0eIzAu5njSZeHhcqQQjTbZ?si=b4de856171c346b7 The track dives into the relief of surrender....

Rick Cassman serves up "JENNIFER JANGLE," and immediately you’re paddling in the bright, optimistic shallows of 1960s British Pop. You can almost taste the sherbet lemon fizz. Yet, knowing Cassman’s packing four decades of musical mileage – playing all the guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, and handling vocals here himself, mind you – suggests we shouldn't just skim the surface. This isn't merely throwback fun;...