Listening to Rewind The Mind's new single, "Come On With Me," is like being pulled into a room where the air itself is the color of marmalade. This Brighton outfit builds a foundation that’s both impossibly tight and wonderfully languid; the bassline functions less as an instrument and more as the steady, reliable metronome of your hips, while clean horns slice through the haze....

Sam Ostler’s new single, “Lights,” then. It unfolds less like a sudden, intrusive glare and more like the slow, determined burn of a really good stage light finally finding its mark after a prolonged blackout. It’s pop, yes, vibrant and undeniably contemporary as advertised – clean lines, clear intentions. Yet, there’s a certain satisfying heft beneath the melodic uplift, a feeling that these notes...