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...

Maraad’s new album, “BUFF”, is a strange and beautiful paradox, an object forged in the very fire it’s meant to protect you from. Each track is presented as a "buff," a bit of protective magic for the spirit, but the energy humming underneath feels less like a polished shield and more like the faint, determined glow around a figure in a centuries-old altarpiece—somehow both...