Hearing Max Mayer’s single “Someday I’ll Fly” feels a bit like eavesdropping on a very specific, very modern kind of prayer whispered over a crackling phone line. Here we have this London-based musician, grappling with the magnetic pull of ambition against the equally strong tether of a heart miles away. The song lives squarely in that awkward, stretching space between here and there. https://open.spotify.com/track/6Gupo1O4sJok4Ku6qcTQOz?si=4Eu-s9UUTZiZH4Qo8piuUQ It’s country-inspired...

Monokate confronts the echoes of endurance and transformation on "Live in Kyiv", a six-track live EP that trades the kinetic electro-folk euphoria of Go_A’s “SHUM” for heavy, atmospheric distortion. Emerging from her departure from the Eurovision-heralded group, her solo work has navigated melancholic indie pop, trip-hop, and darkwave, but here she pivots decisively toward a roaring, full-band alternative rock sound. https://open.spotify.com/album/4IWg937LM2Lwsph7RdGrYH?si=ecW39biCSY-QBNK7oBt_ug Recorded amid wartime power cuts...