With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

With his new EP, "Welcome To My Heart", UK-based solo artist Zachary Mason extends an invitation into a strangely comforting kind of solitude. Hailing from Guildford, Mason has spent years recording hundreds of demos, constantly experimenting with acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and keyboards across multiple genres. His remarkably prolific approach has led to securing placements in film and television sync libraries, as well as...