Washington, DC has long nurtured a particular kind of artistic honesty — from the go-go rhythms of the city's streets to the confessional fury of its punk basements. WiLL, born and raised in Northeast DC, carries that legacy forward on "IG Love," a single that cuts through the noise of contemporary R&B with the precision of someone who has grown quietly furious at how hollow the language of modern affection has become.

Mary Margaret Klein lived for ninety minutes. That is not long enough to hear music, not long enough to recognise a face, not long enough for the world to register her presence in any of the ordinary ways. It is, however, long enough to be loved — and long enough, as Jim Klein and Ian Jamison have now demonstrated, to inspire a work of genuine and lasting beauty.