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“Turn Back Time”: Jimmy Scott Free’s Soulful Paradox.

Jimmy Scott Free’s return with “Turn Back Time,” featuring the potent vocals of Kim English, is a peculiar kind of exorcism. It’s a track with a passport full of stamps—born of a Southend sensibility, aged in Barcelona, and now arriving on our shores—yet its emotional core is stuck stubbornly in a single, unchangeable moment. This is a song that tells you to dance while...

Sinking Deep: Quentin Moore’s Intimate “Kiss Your Lips.”

The new single from Quentin Moore, “Kiss Your Lips,” doesn’t so much start as it seeps into the room, lowering the lights and raising the temperature by a degree or two. Moore is at the piano, his vocals draping over the notes with the patient weight of heavy silk. The entire thing feels excavated from some lost '70s studio session, a slow jam built...

A Wrong Turn? Michael Paul Brennan Asks “What Could’ve Been.”

So, Michael Paul Brennan has unveiled "What Could've Been," and let me tell you, it settled in my mind not like a catchy tune,...