Listening to TaniA Kyllikki’s new single, “I PROMISE (I'll Wait For You)”, is like stumbling upon a vow carved into the stone of a forgotten chapel. This is an epic power ballad, a genre that too often inflates emotion into melodrama, but Kyllikki, alongside producer Rynellton, constructs something with a different kind of gravity. It is an architectural feat, built from piano chords that...

LoDeck & The Golden Godz have offered up "Viscera Cera", a new video single plucked from their album "Dinner at Dorsia", and I have spent the afternoon letting its bruised nostalgia entirely reconfigure my mood. https://open.spotify.com/track/5BkXL2bOstPvHXJfd1cPAu?si=e49710028f0f4c72 You hear a lot of artists attempt to bottle the underground magic of golden-era NYC hip-hop, but usually, you only get the sediment. Here, you get the actual marrow. The...