The Nigerian musician KOHDEE has returned with a new single titled "Mr Fantastic," an ode to his female listeners. His interpretation of the song is so captivating that we know it will appeal to every single one of the ladies. That is the bare minimum you should expect. The Nigerian singer recorded it with boundless enthusiasm, and its hypnotic melodies are universal in their ability to...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...