Rebecca Helen's new single, "Patterns In The Sky," landed in my inbox, and honestly, I wasn't expecting... this. This rising star from Cape Town – indie-pop, they say – has bottled something raw, something that spills out of the speakers and pools around your feet. https://open.spotify.com/track/2kIeEcxZK3GDPsuNXH4k70?si=vPJievz0R-u2_DumdjfUsA The theme? Grief. But not the movie version, with artfully placed single tears. This is the messy, inconvenient, "why did...

Xander William is a young musician that has just emerged on the scene in Norfolk, a rural county in the United Kingdom. His most recent rebranding took place in January of 2022, and his most recent releases date all the way back to the middle of 2021. https://soundcloud.com/user-116237985 Xander William spent his childhood immersed in the culture of hip hop. On the way to high school, his...