NuVoice is a newly launched vocal collective built around harmony driven R&B together with gospel adjacent themes, and “My God Don’t Play About Me” serves as an introduction to the project’s overall approach.
Taking inspiration from classic R&B vocal traditions while keeping the production contemporary, the track positions NuVoice as a group focused more on tone and message than individual identity or performance.
I love records that feel familiar without being predictable. Some of the best music usually lives somewhere in that in between spot between comfort and curiosity, and Eric Selby’s new record Five. achieves exactly that.
The album’s opening track, “The Water,” sets the tone perfectly. It’s a song built on longing not just for a person, but for the calming pull of water itself. Selby has said that he feels most at peace on the beach, and here he captures that almost primal draw towards lakes, rivers and oceans. Deep, sometimes overwhelming, always moving. This is songwriting that doesn’t need to explain itself. Selby says about “The Water”:
“Tossed Away” is a song about a quiet kind of recognition. The moment when disappointment replaces confusion and the truth finally begins to settle in. But it doesn’t frame that realization as confrontation or closure. Instead it lets the feeling exist without rushing to resolve it.
“I’ve thought about this theme many times in my life,” Alter explains. “People using you for their own gain. It really sucks. We’ve all felt it at some point. I finally was able to verbalize that sentiment in a song.”
For Boston based artist and mixing engineer j dylan paul, “love sonnet for mikey” marks a quiet but pivotal turning point, transforming a deeply personal gesture into the foundation for a broader artistic shift.
Originally created as a Christmas gift for a close friend, the song sets a poem written in 2019 after the loss of the author’s brother Mikey. Rather than adapting the text to fit a traditional song structure, j dylan paul treats the poem with careful restrain, leaving the lyrics untouched and resisting any repetition. The song itself lasts just 1 minute 33, but carries a weight that far exceeds its runtime.
