When I pressed play on the latest release from Shelita, titled "Sailors", I wasn't expecting the floor to drop out from under me. You see, "pop" is often a safe word, a designation for the palatable. But this? This is something else entirely. It’s as if someone took a tender ballad and threw it into a particle accelerator to see what sub-atomic emotions would...

The Report confronts the sheer chaos of the streaming age head-on with their latest EP, "A Thousand Acts To Follow". Originating from Kingston-upon-Thames, the group Hugo Allen, Jo Rogers, Gary O’Key, Jules Harley, and Mark Williamson seem intensely focused on staying fiercely authentic while elbowing their way through a crowded digital landscape. By weaving '60s and '70s classic rock sensibilities into crisp '90s indie...