She Becomes’ new single, “Necromancer”, has left me thinking less about music and more about the strange inscriptions one finds on very old gravestones. It’s a track that hangs in the air like November fog, built on guitars that feel like they’ve been dragged through damp, loamy soil and a bassline that has the coiled-up energy of a minor character in a Brontë novel,...

The Cadence of Rhyme, an independent UK-based poet-turned-songwriter, has dropped a defiant single called "Dalek". Billed as an intersection of alternative hip-hop and indie pop, the release operates on a heavily defended philosophy: the meaning leads, the emotion guides, and the production simply serves the story. https://open.spotify.com/album/6LJgrHMFuRlVR6LvanuwHr?si=XA9RzhO_TQiPMltZfPtK0A He takes AI-generated instrumentals and painstakingly wrestles them into submission, bending the tech to fit his precise, human-crafted poetry....