Maraad’s new album, “BUFF”, is a strange and beautiful paradox, an object forged in the very fire it’s meant to protect you from. Each track is presented as a "buff," a bit of protective magic for the spirit, but the energy humming underneath feels less like a polished shield and more like the faint, determined glow around a figure in a centuries-old altarpiece—somehow both...

Written by T. Brown captures a strange, beautiful contradiction on the new single, "The Way She Goes". T. Brown operates as a storyteller obsessed with how an underlying message survives when you twist the energy around it, and here, he drops a lesson in radical acceptance dead in the middle of the club. https://open.spotify.com/artist/73NZQtUd2aUs9g07O6pV3g?si=wqYDIpj6QQ-nmO9DGVe-8g The track rides heavily on a high-pitched, cyclical R&B vocal loop that...