Some collaborations feel like a moment rather than just a release, and this track from A!MS featuring ZieZie, Ramz, Liilz, and Brodie carries that sense of occasion.  Bringing together some of the distinctive voices connected to the UK scene, the record delivers a powerful blend of authenticity, ambition, and undeniable energy. A!MS creates a platform where street influences meet a more expansive sound, allowing the track...

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...