GISKE’s "The Sound of Birdsong" doesn’t so much begin as it seeps into the room, like the pale, perpetual twilight of a Norwegian summer night where sleep feels like a theoretical concept. This is a song for the space between the last page of a book and turning off the light; a four-minute float in that strange, conscious stillness when the world is quiet...

Irish songwriter Eoin Shannon drops us into the deep end of the night with "Every Drunk's Gotta Story". The Cork native's latest release arrives hot on the heels of his January 2025 debut album, "Hello Forever", but this February 2026 concept record is an entirely different beast. Sitting here in Ghana, feeling the warm, humid 9 PM breeze roll through my window, I find...