Marie Chain and "Holy Water" come at a time when the lines between styles of music are becoming less natural. For more than ten years, the Berlin-based artist has been making what she calls "Global Soul," and her newest song shows why that term is so perfect. The track's origin story reads like something from a travel journal. Chain conceived the melody during a summer hike...

You know that feeling when your alarm goes off on a Tuesday, your bank account is looking rough, and you just want to throw your phone out the window? That specific brand of modern exhaustion needs a soundtrack. Enter "Life Lessons", the loud and loose sophomore album from East London's Disco Lizards. Instead of complaining about the state of things, they have decided to crank the...