Melinda Joy steps into the autumn dusk with her captivating new single, “Deadly.” Originating from an unsettling dream state, the track leans into a bittersweet Southern Gothic mood while drifting easily through indie and dream pop territory. Joy’s smooth, breathy vocal delivery glides over a foundation of steady rhythmic strumming and crisp, melodic plucking, greeting heavy existential themes with unexpected warmth. https://open.spotify.com/track/5WpoAXTw8vaScpuWZwmyDV?si=BatGheBtT_a0BDx30DxFjQ At its center, the...

A crowded pavement can make cruelty look ordinary. DirtPhunks' "Subway Reflections" asks us to stop accepting that. The guitar-first single grew from a sight FH Baloo could not shake. As an Oslo student, he saw an older wheelchair user playing harmonica for money outside a downtown subway station near the old University. Passers-by mocked him. Instead of treating that scene as passing colour, the single asks...