Monokate confronts the echoes of endurance and transformation on "Live in Kyiv", a six-track live EP that trades the kinetic electro-folk euphoria of Go_A’s “SHUM” for heavy, atmospheric distortion. Emerging from her departure from the Eurovision-heralded group, her solo work has navigated melancholic indie pop, trip-hop, and darkwave, but here she pivots decisively toward a roaring, full-band alternative rock sound. https://open.spotify.com/album/4IWg937LM2Lwsph7RdGrYH?si=ecW39biCSY-QBNK7oBt_ug Recorded amid wartime power cuts...

Janet Devlin’s new single, “Houston,” arrives as a gleeful contradiction, a two-stepping Americana anthem for the sovereign state of one. It has all the upbeat, country-rock fixings for a roadside sing-along, yet its heart is miles away, floating in a self-imposed, wonderfully stubborn vacuum. The track opens, and you’re ready for a communal good time; instead, you find yourself at a party where the...