There is a specific frequency of liberation that Lucia captures in "Take It Off," hitting the ears with the decisive snap of a locked door finally springing open. While the UK artist has a fifteen-year pedigree, spanning stints with Sam Bailey and time behind the piano, this single sidesteps nostalgia for something urgent and strictly present-tense. https://open.spotify.com/track/6NX7Y3Ybp7nESeAr9jTvJm?si=189311ca1af846f1 The track rides on a deep, bouncy rhythmic pulse...

Parmy Dhillon brings a searing kind of emotional gravity to his new single "Nashville", a track that manages to sound exactly like the specific exhaustion of staring at a ceiling fan in a hotel room three thousand miles from home. Coming out of Naarm, Dhillon has somehow bottled the very air of Tennessee humid, heavy with history, and thick with the tension of unfulfilled...