Before a guitar chord can become an argument, it usually begins as a private disturbance. A television flickers in a locked-down room. A former sailor sees an old enemy image placed beside a strange public gesture of peace. That is the uneasy ground beneath "War Killer," the Reetoxa and it gives the track its charge: not polish for its own sake, but a human reaction...

Fish And Scale has surfaced from the quiet margins with a massive new pop-rock ballad, dropping the cinematic single "Letter from Paulus" today. The German storyteller and independent folk artist operates with a peculiar mystical touch, one seemingly forged by a childhood near-death experience and years spent tucked away in silent retreats. https://open.spotify.com/track/1tfeCiQX5gSMwbMMdjCfWv?si=8a724fa2787f41b8 All that introspective isolation pours directly into this track. It begins terribly exposed....