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...

Senior Dunce's new single, "Bestial," has arrived, feeling less like a typical release and more like an urgent, slightly baffling philosophical tract wrapped in a day-glo dance floor invitation. It’s a funky house dance track, make no mistake. Yet, this isn't solely an invitation to shuffle your feet; it's a dispatch from the messy, gloriously imperfect front lines of human existence. https://open.spotify.com/album/0lzz1FMqXuBpGzuK1YKlWc?si=w1CEDHE7S7W1AkudlyVFAw Dunce, a self-proclaimed eccentric...