Young V opens his latest album, "I Can See Earth From Here", with the peculiar calm of someone who has managed to step entirely outside the atmosphere to catch his breath. Hailing from Michigan City, the artist born Vincent Young crafts his records by putting pen to paper first, subsequently building custom sonic architecture around the lyrics at Bright Star Studios. That deliberate discipline...

Some songs arrive with a chorus built for the group chat. Shannon Darcy’s ‘Treasures and Gold’ comes in closer. This alternative pop rock single centres on a far less tidy feeling: caring about somebody who has repeatedly made you feel unwanted, then realising that their behaviour cannot keep writing your value for you. ‘Treasures and Gold’ shifts Darcy from the defiant heat of "Control Freak" into...