Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

South African-born, London-based pop artist Lola Audreys has condensed the fleeting magic of youthful spontaneity into her new single, "Summer On A Sunday." Her childhood spent on a rural farm clearly lends a grounded, almost unsettlingly raw emotional honesty to an immaculate piece of modern synth-pop. https://open.spotify.com/track/4sPRSaHTIRtsHLqT5KEQwQ?si=kClwhH4aRP68qg4yS94Mqg The track operates on a steady, driving pulse beneath bright, highly rhythmic sequences. Those shimmering, bubbly melodic lines bounce...