A crowded pavement can make cruelty look ordinary. DirtPhunks' "Subway Reflections" asks us to stop accepting that. The guitar-first single grew from a sight FH Baloo could not shake. As an Oslo student, he saw an older wheelchair user playing harmonica for money outside a downtown subway station near the old University. Passers-by mocked him. Instead of treating that scene as passing colour, the single asks...

There is something frantically urgent about the way Michellar delivers "LOVE PEACE WAR- acoustic remix". After a staggering forty-year silence, a gap wide enough to fit entire lifetimes into this San Francisco songwriter broke the seal in 2023 and hasn’t stopped since. This track, inspired by the invasion of Ukraine, captures that specific, dusty nostalgia of Haight-Ashbury, seemingly channelling the ghosts of 1960s protest...