Matthew Steven Whitaker’s “HOW IT USED TO BE” lives in that ugly middle ground where a relationship has already broken, but memory keeps pretending it hasn’t. The American artist builds the track from fingerstyle acoustic and baritone rubber-bridge guitars, cello, upright…
Read MoreRuby Alexander’s “Undertow” is built like a room left almost untouched after someone has gone. The Australian artist keeps the arrangement strikingly spare, letting chill acoustic guitar riffs form the song’s exposed framework while her lush, lo-fi velvety vocal settles into…
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