One moment the person you love is there, and suddenly they are not. That is the premise of "Goodbye, My Love," the story of a man who loses the woman he loves...
At the peak of her buzz in late-1980s Los Angeles, Weslie Brown stepped onto a ship and vanished, leaving it all behind to sail around the world. She had been a headliner...
An album called Bright Colors might sound cheerful, but bassist and composer Trevor Robertson wrote it out of loss. The music emerged from consecutive periods of great loss and growth in his...
Some songs wait a long time for the right moment. Drummer, songwriter, and producer Hans-Peter de Zeeuw, who records as D'Z, wrote "Inner Child" more than thirty years ago and has only...
A song about betrayal that makes you want to dance is an unusual thing, and that contrast is the whole idea behind "Ólekú." Lagos Afrobeat artist Sayralex released it on September 18th,...
What happens when disagreeing with someone gets treated as a symptom? That question sits at the center of "Electrify," the new single from London electronic pop duo Ooberfuse, released on October 9th,...
The title "Kol Dh Mady" translates roughly to "all of that is the past," and the song is about reaching exactly that point. DY, an independent rapper from Egypt, wrote it about...
Confidence and vulnerability don't usually occupy the same space so comfortably. “INTRODUCTION” by Dia The Libra puts them side by side, finding something almost liberating in the messiness of growing, changing, and...
