Paris-based experimental artist Near Stoic returns with Under the Pomegranate Shade, his third full-length album, and his second for Third Kind Records following his successful 2021 album ‘Notebook (Thoughts & Short Stories)’. His new album follows a single relationship from its sudden beginning to its equally sudden end. The title comes from a small, vivid memory: the way his former partner's cheeks would flush the deep red of a pomegranate. The image was tied to her favorite film, Sergei Paraj…