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Val’s second album, embers, gives the Chilean singer-songwriter ten songs to answer a difficult question: how much weight can intimate alt-pop carry before intimacy turns into sameness? Following Ashes, the record lives in the emotionally…
At a certain point in a long career, experience stops being a biography and becomes taste: what an artist leaves out, which advice they ignore and how quickly they recognise a false note in their…
Indonesian-born, Singapore-based vocalist Reggie Pryor returns with his second full-length project six years after Love Anthology, working in close partnership with pianist Jeremy Monteiro. Released through d’Andalan Records on May 26, My Favorite Things gathers…
Maryann Connolly’s new single Crashing Down gets to its most useful part very quickly: the chorus. I barely had time to decide what kind of indie pop-rock song I was…
At a certain point in a long career, experience stops being a biography and becomes taste: what an artist leaves out, which advice they ignore and how quickly they recognise…
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Nineteen-year-old Kansas songwriter Sam Christian recently moved to Nashville to study at Belmont after Berklee. On My Phone, taken from his latest EP Loverboy, presents a breakup through sudden changes…
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