What ZYAN REIGN offers in her first album, Mockingbird. This freshman debut isn’t some tidy nod to the past. It’s a correction. A recalibration. A reminder of what the form sounds like when a vocalist understands the weight of a note and treats it with the respect older generations demanded.

While today’s market settles for recycled progressions and voices leaning on air instead of craft, she steps in with the steadiness of a singer raised on records that did not forgive laziness. Her delivery feels cut from the era when pitch, breath, and phrasing were not accessories but obligations.