ANGELICA, the Colombian-born, New Yorker— wait, wasn't she a dancer? Yes, was. Now, she's singing, and her latest single, "Lincoln Pl," produced by Marrick Smith and Ian Kimmel, dropped. And my first thought, unbidden, was: Why do pigeons always bob their heads? https://open.spotify.com/album/3O23i4F0TvXtrIp8I6o9jl?si=t1MLgaIyQfWeU1UIobZ1iQ Anyway, "Lincoln Pl." It's a pop/R&B concoction, with a dreamy synth that makes you think you're floating, until ANGELICA's voice, all grounded and...

When I first heard Liz Nash and her latest single, "Little Box House", my mind immediately wandered to the structural integrity of a hermit crab’s shell. There is something profoundly architectural about this track, yet soft like a blueprint drawn on a velvet napkin. Nash, hailing from Mount Dora, Florida, seems to have distilled the specific heavy humidity of a Southern downpour into a...