On "Mr. Know It All", the loudest person in the room may have the least to teach us. That thought gives Jack Raymond’s second album its bite. This Australian folk, roots and blues album review puts people at its centre. They carry family stories, dodge hard truths and live with choices that arrived before them. Raymond gives no heroic status to the title figure. Instead, he...

A warning can sound like ego until you learn what preceded it. YesaYa’s "D.P.W.M" makes that tension the starting point of its challenge. "Don’t Play With Me" can read as a boast, or a wall raised before anyone gets close. Yet the UK rap single places confidence beside years of doubts, delays and knock-backs. That difference gives the statement weight. The point is not invulnerability. It...