Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Chris Garcia Patience sounds noble until somebody you love refuses to come down from the tree. Coco Smith stays beneath those branches on Twomac. This track is a folk-rock single which makes waiting feel active, frustrating and hopeful at the same time. Delicate drums move under a driving bassline while the guitars begin close to the vocal and slowly claim more room. That gradual expansion gives the song its catharsis without pretending the pro

Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Avery Kaplan Fish Hunt, the New York folk-rock project led by Lucy Mondello, turns political frustration into an exposed musical conversation on Monkey See Monkey Do. The track is Mondello’s first attempt at fingerpicking, and the exposed figures reveal whether a player understands the pulse or is only following the person beside them. This song uses that same tension to question imitation with, Tex Patrello answers the guitar on piano. Widenin

New York duo halfway up a jagged hill introduce themselves through HUAJH, an eight-track passage from despair toward renewal.

Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Natalie Jane There is a point where distortion stops sounding aggressive and starts sounding therapeutic. Halfway Up A Jagged Hill hit that threshold on Liar, a bruising single that weaponizes blast beats, jagged guitar work, and relentless momentum to explore the quiet lies people tell themselves just to survive another day. Every shift in tempo feels purposeful, mirroring the mental tug-of-war between endurance and collapse. The band's writin

Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Georgie Duddy Hope rarely arrives without first surviving resistance. Coco Smith builds into that contrast on Multiform, a beautifully restrained single that lets fragile melodies carry the weight of emotions left unsaid. Airy vocals drift across plucked guitars and subtle string arrangements while a quiet current of frustration steadily pushes beneath the surface. Inspired by anger that couldn't find another outlet, "Multiform" transforms inte