Northern Irish singer-songwriter Deborah Fitz has shared her new single "Home", an acoustic pop ballad that neatly dismantles our collective obsession with brick-and-mortar geography. https://open.spotify.com/album/2lQWFryJWoohNeg7gt9t7F?si=prIVwQU3TEysyrNZ37lvxg Raised on an eclectic diet of 1960s hits and Irish traditional music, Fitz has been honing her craft in local pubs around County Down since the age of fourteen. You can hear that rugged, unfussy stamina in her delivery today. Created...

Some songs arrive with a chorus built for the group chat. Shannon Darcy’s ‘Treasures and Gold’ comes in closer. This alternative pop rock single centres on a far less tidy feeling: caring about somebody who has repeatedly made you feel unwanted, then realising that their behaviour cannot keep writing your value for you. ‘Treasures and Gold’ shifts Darcy from the defiant heat of "Control Freak" into...