With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

NBP Human, the rock music project spearheaded by Balazs Janky, has returned with a sonic boom disguised as a single: "Morbid Craziness". Janky’s return to songwriting peels back the layers of our modern reality, presenting a gritty, yet strangely hopeful, analysis. https://open.spotify.com/track/0QydCcGjtDavFLV8igmDkJ?si=d50fc84fda6a41b0 "Morbid Craziness" throws a spotlight on the shadowy corners of a world obsessed with deceit. You know, the kind where your toaster probably judges...