DBsock, the artistic moniker of Mingwei Gao, arrives not with a gentle announcement, but with a complex, shifting statement in her debut EP, "The Journey". The songs on this album do not really feel like easy music. Instead, they feel more like a complicated guide that shows the way through internal territories. Gao is a singer, musician, producer, and creator who works in Los Angeles and...

Jamie Somerville’s new single, “Lonely Walkers,” drifts in like morning fog rolling over a deserted pier. It’s a track born from a home setting, and you feel that intimacy immediately – a close-mic'd vulnerability mapping the difficult terrain of profound solitude. Somerville, a London solo artist, clearly understands the peculiar weight of wanting connection while simultaneously building fortifications against the possibility of it. https://open.spotify.com/track/0pqbuFAcyMYC3JEZvomxxY?si=eb849e7f5ccb4d4a Drawing from...