Monokate confronts the echoes of endurance and transformation on "Live in Kyiv", a six-track live EP that trades the kinetic electro-folk euphoria of Go_A’s “SHUM” for heavy, atmospheric distortion. Emerging from her departure from the Eurovision-heralded group, her solo work has navigated melancholic indie pop, trip-hop, and darkwave, but here she pivots decisively toward a roaring, full-band alternative rock sound. https://open.spotify.com/album/4IWg937LM2Lwsph7RdGrYH?si=ecW39biCSY-QBNK7oBt_ug Recorded amid wartime power cuts...

There's a curious jolt in hearing a title like "Us Against The World" from an act called The Cockney Cowboy. The name itself is a glorious contradiction, a pairing of gritty East London reality with the wide-open romance of Nashville. You half expect a joke, but what Justin Vella delivers is a dead-serious, straight-shooting country ballad that smells less of hay bales and more...