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...

Amara-Fe has definitively shifted from the messy business of becoming into the absolute certainty of claiming with her new album, "A Queen’s Ambition". The rising solo artist, tethered to deep musical roots extending through Mission and Dallas, Texas, arrives fully formed here. There is a palpable weight to her cinematic R&B and electropop arrangements. You can almost feel her surveying her territory, setting borders,...