Rare Element (feat. Britt Foe from Lunar & the Deception) take on "Fields of Joy" as a single, and it lands like finding a meticulously crafted ship-in-a-bottle washed up on a neon-lit beach. You have the producer duo, Hedge Seel and Jerry Kandiah, laying down this framework of pulsing electronic heartbeats and synth textures that feel both organic and meticulously engineered, a surprising bedrock...

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...