Marie Chain and "Holy Water" come at a time when the lines between styles of music are becoming less natural. For more than ten years, the Berlin-based artist has been making what she calls "Global Soul," and her newest song shows why that term is so perfect. The track's origin story reads like something from a travel journal. Chain conceived the melody during a summer hike...

Dalma’s new single, “Dance of Life,” arrived in my mental airspace much like discovering a pressed flower between the pages of a dense philosophical treatise – an unexpected, organic whisper of the profound. This is a tune that ponders the relentless spooling of time, that very human yearning to either clutch moments tight until our knuckles are white, or perhaps, to gently nudge the...