I saw a pigeon wearing a tiny top hat yesterday. It has absolutely nothing to do with Rich Allen's new single, "No Pinks", but, honestly, what does? The song unravels like a worn photograph, the edges blurry with regret, a silent conversation shouted in the spaces between plucked guitar strings. Allen, known around Tampa for his poignant songwriting, digs deep, like a fossil hunter...

The Parisian Litiges! quartet delivers a visceral debut single 'You're Freakin' Me Out' that explores the exhaustion of conditional love. There is a distinct, heavy gravity that settles into a room when an old argument is resurrected for the hundredth time. It is the kind of fatigue that settles deep into the bones, a weariness born not from physical labour but from the sheer emotional...