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Jack Louis Cooper Shares Catchy New Single ‘Lying Low’

Jack Louis Cooper returns with his new track ‘Lying Low’, his first single since the release of his 2020 EP ‘A Slow but Sure Corner’. Jack pulls from summery, indie sounds and turns them on their head with jaunty, guitar driven instrumentation and a sincere vocal delivery, creating a refreshing juxtaposition. His introspective and raw lyrical themes blend seamlessly with his energetic and uplifting sound in a way that almost catches the listener off guard. Bold, catchy and every bit authentic, ‘Lying Low’ is a memorable and highly addictive offering from the Bristol singer-songwriter.

Discussing the new single, Jack Louis Cooper shares: It was at the start of 2021, deep into the third lockdown in England and I was back at my parents house when I started writing Lying Low. Having been reflecting on the last year and my own mental health, lyrics started to come together about being stuck overthinking in your own head and trying to process what was going on in the world. Musically I wanted to create something driving and catchy as I was dreaming of playing live again with a full band. It made Lying Low this mixture of introspective lyrics and a song that needs to be played live.”

Through catchy melodies and direct lyricism Jack Louis Cooper wants to open up a conversation: specifically around mental health and the stigmas that surround it. The 25 year old Bristol based songwriter uses his music as a way of tackling this, writing about his own experiences with mental health and building relatable open conversations with others through his IGTV podcast, ‘Come As You Are’. 

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“Subterranean Homesick Blues” finds a new direction through Ghost of Panama

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

Amanda Holley

“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.

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