Ava Valianti captures the agonizing, beautiful purgatory of sixteen on her new single, "Sophomore Slump". The Newbury, Massachusetts songwriter has tapped directly into the crushing gravity of adolescence, a phase where a trivial misstep somehow fractures your entire psychological reality. https://open.spotify.com/track/20fIdhi8sFspbb6FAzHXCr?si=27a8aa904ccb4a5b There is a distinct, humiliating vulnerability in breaking down in front of someone else. You desperately crave the safety of their connection, yet you burn...

The indie pop artist delivers a seven-track album that feels exactly like the emotional whiplash of your twenties You know that feeling when you are walking home late at night, the streetlights are flickering, and your brain is cycling through every mistake you have ever made, only to suddenly feel completely invincible? That is exactly the energy Lana Crow captures on her third studio album. "In...