Dan Wilkie’s sixteen-song album, "MelodyBox," arrives not with a neat bow but feeling more like an overstuffed cabinet of curiosities flung open by its Shefford-based creator. Wilkie, working solo as a multi-instrumentalist and producer, wrangles virtual instruments and real vulnerability into something uniquely his own, steeped in the melodic hooks of 60s/70s pop but often taking sharp turns down less-travelled, sometimes shadowed paths. https://open.spotify.com/album/0EX2aW7d7JSQ2xonrFDGvZ?si=XRwACPuoRW2vG_PAITRfyg The album...

UK-based singer, songwriter, and virtuoso violinist Asta Bria flips our collective sense of dread entirely on its head with "Virus" (Køla Remix). She built a lyrical framework around an unstoppable, overpowering contagion only to load that microscopic vessel with a radical, inescapable dose of global affection. It is a brilliant, unsettling contradiction. https://open.spotify.com/track/651GbhleS9N64FhoYHu8gp?si=dEplW27LQOqNK5reIhbBeQ In this first installment of an upcoming trilogy, Køla aggressively reworks the original...