Listening to Bloomfield Machine's new seventeen-track instrumental album, “Copium,” feels a bit like stepping into a terrarium during a quiet downpour. The title itself suggests a kind of modern, knowing self-delusion, the balm we apply just to get by. Yet, the music crafted by Huntington Beach’s Brian Kassan is far too sincere for pure cynicism. This isn’t the sound of giving up; it’s the...

Outstanding in the fields of singing, songwriting, and composition, Robin Shaw hails from Diss in the United Kingdom. The beginning of Robin's career in music was spent as a street dancer, when he was 16 years old, participating in hip-hop local talent events, some of which featured the television programme Britain's Got Talent. After a successful audition in Soho, London, in 2016, Robin, then 23 years...