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Recent post-Voice releases include singles from LACES, Max Boyle and Karli Webster.

Here’s a bit more about each of those releases. The links take you to the songs on Apple Music.

LACES from The Voice Season 2

LACES, aka Charlotte Sometimes on Season 2, has teamed up with Dresage for a single called “The Sooner it Stops, the Sooner it Starts.” The song originated from a zoom pandemic session, LACES says, adding: “Dresage and I worked tirelessly to make sure this song reflected us both individually as artists … This is dedicated to anyone that’s felt chased and haunted by cyclical thoughts and ghosts of the past. It does and will get better.” The single comes on the heels of LACES’ superb “Super Weirdo” album, released in May.

Max Boyle of The Voice Season 17

Max Boyle from Season 17 is back with his fourth single of 2022, “Don’t Make It Easy.” The song was written by another Voice alum, Gabe Broussard, who auditioned for Season 11 at age 15. Max told Pop Culturalist the song ‘deals with how in life and in relationships, sometimes things need to end when neither of you really want it to. But sometimes, life makes it hard. Careers make it hard. Sometimes, the right thing to do is call it quits, whether you still love each other and all of that.” Max’s previous 2022 releases — “Sweet July,” “Cold as Ice” and “Bad for Me” will be packaged with the new single and one other song on an upcoming EP.

Karli Webster from The Voice Season 13

Karli Webster, a Season 13 standout, recently released “Alaska,” her first single in three years. She thanks co-writer Misha Hercules for helping make the song possible. “This song has been over 2 years in the making,” she says. “It has survived COVID, moved multiple times between different states AND countries, and is, to date, the song I’m most proud to have written … While I didn’t totally love living there, I hope you love what came out of it.”