If you’ve experienced loss or found yourself helplessly watching someone struggle with addiction, this song will resonate deeply, serving as a reflection of unspoken pain. The Rising Shine Project‘s “Heals All Wounds” emerges as a quietly powerful elegy that confronts its subject with unwavering honesty. Henry Stoll’s lyrics penetrate the heart: “What’s a promise worth, if it remains unspoken? What good’s a house of dreams, with all the windows broken?”

The single occupies a space within contemporary pop but embraces a sense of restraint: it features a warm acoustic base, minimal embellishments, and delicate AI-assisted textures that enhance the atmosphere without overshadowing the narrative. This production choice ensures that the focus remains on the story being told. Stoll’s vocal delivery prioritizes genuine emotion over perfection, moving from grief to anger and tender exhaustion in a way that feels authentic rather than rehearsed.

Inspired by the songwriter’s real-life tragedy, his adopted son’s death from fentanyl, the song serves as both a tribute and a cautionary tale. While it may not pursue mainstream radio polish, its emotional transparency stands out as its greatest strength. For anyone affected by addiction or loss, this track provides acknowledgment rather than clichés and a space to grapple with complex emotions. The Rising Shine Project’s “Heals All Wounds” is a brave and human expression: raw, compassionate, and profoundly honest in its delicate emotions..

Knox Avery is not a traditional artist. It’s an AI-driven project created by Harold “Leroy” Holden of Dogface Music, built around human songwriting and human production with an AI performer at the front – a setup designed, as the press material puts it, to keep the focus on the message rather than the personality. That’s an unusual but honest framing, and “If Love Was The Meal”, released in May, is a good test case for whether the concept holds up. The answer is mostly yes.

The song poses a single question at its core: if love were the meal, would we let anyone starve? It’s a simple rhetorical device, but it works because it reframes a systemic issue – global hunger driven by war, inequality, and the maldistribution of resources that already exist – as a moral failure rather than a logistical one. The planet produces enough food to feed everyone on it. The problem is not supply. That’s the argument the song makes, and it makes it cleanly without tipping into the kind of overwrought sentimentality that tends to sink conscious pop.

Musically, it sits in the inspirational contemporary pop lane – warm, accessible, built to reach broadly rather than impress narrowly. Twenty-five percent of all royalties are being donated to nonprofits fighting global hunger, which means every stream carries some weight beyond the listen itself. Whether you come for the message or the music, there’s something here worth engaging with.