Janet Devlin’s new single, “Houston,” arrives as a gleeful contradiction, a two-stepping Americana anthem for the sovereign state of one. It has all the upbeat, country-rock fixings for a roadside sing-along, yet its heart is miles away, floating in a self-imposed, wonderfully stubborn vacuum. The track opens, and you’re ready for a communal good time; instead, you find yourself at a party where the...

Written by T. Brown captures a strange, beautiful contradiction on the new single, "The Way She Goes". T. Brown operates as a storyteller obsessed with how an underlying message survives when you twist the energy around it, and here, he drops a lesson in radical acceptance dead in the middle of the club. https://open.spotify.com/artist/73NZQtUd2aUs9g07O6pV3g?si=wqYDIpj6QQ-nmO9DGVe-8g The track rides heavily on a high-pitched, cyclical R&B vocal loop that...