Listening to TaniA Kyllikki’s new single, “I PROMISE (I'll Wait For You)”, is like stumbling upon a vow carved into the stone of a forgotten chapel. This is an epic power ballad, a genre that too often inflates emotion into melodrama, but Kyllikki, alongside producer Rynellton, constructs something with a different kind of gravity. It is an architectural feat, built from piano chords that...

A brief encounter can borrow from the future. A look, a promising night, a partly known name can become a stage on which the mind arranges scenes that have not happened. Jillian Marks builds “You’re Not Mine” around that private act of projection. The original single finds the Vancouver singer-songwriter returning after several years with a piano-led account of desire moving faster than knowledge. Its premise...