With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

On the digital single “Stay a While,” Neon Diffraction the electronic project helmed by producer Rupert Goddard teams up with Fenton King to pull off a curious paradox: making a furious 174 BPM pulse feel like an unhurried sanctuary. Liquid drum & bass so often hungers for relentless forward travel, yet this piece asks you to linger. It plants King’s expressive, blues-inflected vocal delivery...