It's a pleasantly microdosed, bittersweet, consummately crafted and timeless alt-pop gem that's been on repeat the last few days.

A simple, sombre rhythm underpins the sparkling, low key lysergic dirge, it's pulsing melancholy saved from depression by the lighter tones

tradition is briskly dispelled by some solid beats that anchor the ambient electronica, sparingly used string refrain and the undoubted star

There’s a real folkiness to proceedings with Phillips falsetto urged higher by the acoustic guitar picking and post modern piano tinkling

hints of his dance music deviance littering the low lit 80s and post punk nodding instrumentals

sees him heading further into soulful pop territory, but this is not autotuned, music by numbers fare, it's loose, live and swinging.

Devereaux runs absolute stylistic riot veering between bedroom pop, madcap synth abuse, weirdo outsiderism and jazz futurism

I rarely have time to look back in the rear view mirror whilst swerving recklessly through the music release avalanche, lest I get buried...

She appears to be heading in a more ethereal, soft edged experimental & hence TSMM friendly direction though, & my ears are now tingling.

There's nothing obviously AI that jumps out at you - whatever "obviously AI" sounds like, but it's certainly an accomplished slice of futuristic pop

pleasing takes on various 20th century song forms - drum machine preset powered bossa, orchestral soul and sunny West Coast psychedelic pop.