Artist Spotlight
Aaron Fisher cranks the volume on emotion and energy for “Deliverance”
Turn the volume up and hold on tight. Aaron Fisher’s new single “Deliverance” is a high-octane ride of raw energy, crisp guitar work, and an absolute chorus meant to be blasted from car windows and living room speakers alike.
“Deliverance” enters with an authoritative zap and delivers what listeners yearn for with a high-impact track that earns its landing. Fisher’s voice is most expressive when he hangs the notes in the chorus, allowing emotion to drip through every moment while the guitar hums and howls in perfect confluence. There’s something so deep and satisfying about how that sustained vocal line locks into place with the instrumentals. It’s one part built for live shows, blaring speakers, and cathartic singalongs.
However, the beauty of “Deliverance” is in its gratuitous fun. It’s solemn but never overly so. You can pump this one loud and still hear the freedom in it, a certain kind of song you’d score your victories to or lean on during long drives with only the open road and your thoughts. The chorus, in particular, is as catchy and anthemic as the kind of song you can’t stop humming for hours afterward.
There’s also a palpable chemistry between Fisher’s voice and the guitar. The elements flow as one, constructing a pulse with your head bobbing from start to end. The track beckons listeners to a feat that stands accomplished with this much ease on every song. In a world deep to its gills with background music and algorithm-fed noise, “Deliverance” carves through with intent. Aaron Fisher is making experiences. And here, with this track, he’s provided a reason to crank it up and return to it repeatedly.
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“Subterranean Homesick Blues” finds a new direction through Ghost of Panama
Rearranging a song that carries six decades of cultural weight is a creative challenge, but Ghost of Panama approaches “Subterranean Homesick Blues” with clear purpose. The rock band radically reworks Bob Dylan’s counter-culture hit, reshaping its identity while keeping its rebellious spirit. It’s a tribute to musical heritage and a statement of artistic independence all in one.
This new interpretation is very much shaped by the production, made at Ghost of Panama’s home studio in West London. The setting allows an intimate approach to reinterpreting a familiar song and lets the group engage directly with the material, taking it in a new artistic direction.
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” centers on the tension between conservation and transformation. Ghost of Panama is true to the song’s rebellious spirit without adding to its legacy, and this approach gives the release an adventurous feel, grounded in countercultural energy but driven by a desire to see what the composition can become in a different musical context.
Their version of this 60-year-old classic shows that respecting a song’s history can also mean breaking the rules and finding new ways to express its spirit. Fundamentally, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” presents Ghost of Panama as artists who want to engage with the past without being tied to it. The release’s strongest identity is a familiar heritage reimagined through a singularly forward-looking creative vision.
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“NO MORE” by Amanda Holley connects healing, awakening, and survival
“NO MORE“ carries that kind of emotional weight, and some songs feel like they come from lived experience but reach for something bigger. Amanda Holley blends R&B and soul, turning a lifetime of survival into a vision of healing, awakening, and the determination to move beyond what caused the pain.
“NO MORE“ is a healing anthem for people who have gone through bad experiences and reached a place of higher awareness, but it’s also an emotionally charged protest. The duality is introspective and outward-looking at the same time, turning personal survival into a broader declaration that some experiences, conditions, or cycles should end.
Holley had a premonition of the song six months before the world went into global shutdown. In the vocal booth, working out melodies with her collaborators, she pictured people in the streets. Those images were hard to imagine at the time, but subsequent events would make them painfully familiar.
“NO MORE“ is given a particularly contemplative underpinning by the context. The identity of R&B and soul leaves room for emotion. The song’s themes link survival, awakening, resistance, and the need for change. Amanda Holley is an artist using music to process personal endurance and a broader sense of social awakening. It’s got a complicated significance, and its release feels like a glimpse of a moment when personal intuition and public reality collided in an unexpected way.
Photo Credit: Yulia Shusharina
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