Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Ghanaian artiste Ess Thee Legend returns with BLOOM EP, a five-track Afro-fusion EP that explores the emotional complexity of intimacy in all its forms, from heartbreak and emotional distance to sensual connection and romantic longing. Across the project, Ess thee Legend builds an immersive emotional world rooted in vulnerability, softness, yearning, and self-expression. BLOOM unfolds almost like chapters of a relationship, documenting moments of grief,...