Korda Korder's new release, "Everything You Ever Wanted To Be", begins just as good coming-of-age movies do: with a drumbeat establishing itself, followed by a guitar riff that sounds almost like a remembered melody.

Sweet Mess' "Let's Just Go" is the feeling most of us get when stuck in a social gathering, thinking, "Why am I here? When can I leave?!"

"All Over Again" is simply an excellent rock song, at face value. But, beneath all that, it sings about people who have struggled through the grind, the doubt, the high road to achieving something that they have truly wanted for a long, long time.

Eddie Cohn's "Weight of the World" is about the emotional impact of our devices and how it affects our ability to rest our minds

"City of Sails" by Microbes is a truly tragic observation into how the value of creativity is lost to commercialisation.