Leon Blanchard, a name perhaps faintly echoing from the mid-noughties indie surge, returns not with fanfare, but with a solitary signal flare titled "Astronaut". Hailing from Grimsby, a town known more for its fishing heritage than its celestial aspirations, Blanchard's new song does not really feel like a return, but more like a personal gearbox picked up after years of chatter. In 2007, his old band,...

Northern Irish singer-songwriter Deborah Fitz has shared her new single "Home", an acoustic pop ballad that neatly dismantles our collective obsession with brick-and-mortar geography. https://open.spotify.com/album/2lQWFryJWoohNeg7gt9t7F?si=prIVwQU3TEysyrNZ37lvxg Raised on an eclectic diet of 1960s hits and Irish traditional music, Fitz has been honing her craft in local pubs around County Down since the age of fourteen. You can hear that rugged, unfussy stamina in her delivery today. Created...