Near Death Experience's single, "Shake," arrived not so much as music, but as a sudden, urgent insistence. It’s London psych-rock-soul alright, but brewed with something fiercely immediate, demanding attention like a ringing telephone in an empty room. The core quartet – Ian Whiteling guiding the trip with vocals and guitar fuzz, Joshua Van Ness laying down a heartbeat that feels both frantic and locked-in,...

Irish songwriter Eoin Shannon drops us into the deep end of the night with "Every Drunk's Gotta Story". The Cork native's latest release arrives hot on the heels of his January 2025 debut album, "Hello Forever", but this February 2026 concept record is an entirely different beast. Sitting here in Ghana, feeling the warm, humid 9 PM breeze roll through my window, I find...