There is a particular kind of clarity that only surfaces when a body has nothing left to give, the kind found on the last night of a run of shows, in a stairwell or a car park, somewhere between one place and the next. It was in exactly this kind of setting, a multi-story car park in Dublin, that Cork singer-songwriter Cathal Fitz wrote "A...

On their buoyant new single "Until Further Notice," Roses and Rain plot an exhilarating escape hatch out of daily monotony and toward the open coast. Drawing on their collective roots across London, Tokyo, and Nashville, Sarah Rose and Leila Reine construct a luminous piece of indie pop centered on radical self-preservation. https://open.spotify.com/album/20H9b0VIbxN25Nn5qXLFCu?si=J4Y97qdmSYe-jvIQudACRQ There is an odd, giddy euphoria that arrives the exact second you abandon an...