The moment the jaunty guitar kicks in on John Smyths’ new single, "Now I'm Wiser", you feel a familiar, comfortable warmth. It’s the sound of a good chair in a bar where the floor is sticky with spilled truths. And then the story starts, a classic yarn of a hard-living past yielding to a peaceful present. Smyths, a Dutch ex-metalhead singing country out of...

Listening to Kaya Street’s new four-part single series—” Kaya Street Summer Singles” from "Revolutionary Minds" through to "Start Again"—feels less like queuing up a playlist and more like walking through four rooms of a single, sprawling house. Each one is painted a different colour, holds a different temperature, but they’re all unmistakably connected by the same foundation. https://open.spotify.com/album/4lAZIzS8UEfR5g8RlEeWz1?si=pks_1ftjSOWhRaKJucc4CQ This is the Bristol collective’s genius: crafting a...