There is a surprisingly grounded gravity when Reigns and collaborating artist Waives deliver their new single "Closer Than Your Shadow", a release that catches you entirely off guard before swallowing the room. The track begins quite cautiously. Solitary, fragile notes repeat in a sequence of profound melancholy, dropping you immediately into that terrifyingly cold space of personal isolation. https://open.spotify.com/album/4vmfetQu8eJMEZclkyRh7F?si=kQv-B2DcRlWp2Jx2ptEFcA Then, the floorboards begin to rumble. Waives usually...

Gary Grant Chamberlain has released "Just Go to Church", a country ballad that stares completely unblinking into the void of human tragedy. The Indiana-born singer, songwriter, guitarist, and former police officer took up his craft again to honor the memory of his two-year-old son, Garrison, who perished in a house fire. At a time when the music industry flirts so heavily with artificial intelligence,...