UK songwriter Tim Jackson has released “Can’t Stop The Rain,” the lead offering from his forthcoming full-length album, “Putting In The Hours.” Having recently walked away from a long-held day job to pursue music full-time backed by a fresh global distribution deal via Universal Music the classically trained multi-instrumentalist harnesses decades of classic FM-dial warmth. The song unfurls like an intriguing thought experiment: what...

Listening to Loup Miracle’s new EP, “Back To You”, feels a bit like trying to navigate by stars through a suddenly unfamiliar city. The French outfit, steered by Vincent Leservoisier alongside Paul Douvier and Miguel Romero Sulbaran (with input here from Pierre Szabo and Issara), crafts art rock that’s simultaneously groovy and deeply unsettling. These three songs thrum with the push-and-pull of modern existence...