It's rare for the sleepy town of Meopham, Kent to produce a musical force that captures the hearts and playlists of millions. Yet Siimon, with his unassuming roots in this English village, is the golden exception. Siimon made a thunderous entry into the music world in January 2021 with "Cuts And Bruises" The album didn't merely resonate; it reverberated across charts, parking itself commendably at the...

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...