Mark Cee maps the quiet devastation of outgrowing love on his melancholic new single, "Missed Connection". Ahead of his forthcoming record, "It's Me, Mark Cee", the Long Island ambient indie-folk songwriter delivers a staunchly analog meditation on the weird, heavy stillness that settles into a room once somebody walks out for good. https://open.spotify.com/album/0SBHNHPARhjLh7xOANXSID?si=cFAY88x7TmSDD5WgKip5vA Defiantly rejecting artificial polish, Cee relies entirely on the unvarnished grit and honest...

A city can teach a person how to carry noise. The Liberties, with its old trade routes and close communal pulse, has long carried dense human music. From that inheritance, Zak Coghlan appears to have taken not only a taste for melody, but a belief that feeling becomes sharper when placed inside a story that can stand up under pressure. “Lead Balloon”, his new single...