Listen: Bitter by Maisy Kay (opens in new tab)

Maisy Kay Bitter With muted, steely guitars, the new single from British-born, LA-based alt-pop artist Maisy Kay’s wears its heart on its sleeve from the beginning. Picking over the wreckage of a terminated relationship, Kay portrays herself as fragile, ‘Like a hummingbird trapped in a cage of porcelain’, and drinking again. That muted guitar is gradually surrounded in a wrapping of deep bass and loose, textured percussion, much as Kay’s lyrics gradually strengthen her fragility with somethin...