With the release of Jeppediinho’s debut album, “Games of Life”, we are reminded that sometimes the most profound rulebooks are written by those who’ve mastered a different kind of joystick. Jesper Holmgren, a former professional e-sports player, has constructed a thirteen-level odyssey that treats human emotion like a side-scrolling adventure: there are pitfalls, power-ups, and a final boss that turns out to look suspiciously...

Leicester’s genre-defying trio 9 o’clock Nasty has shared a released called "BEAST", offering the eighth dizzying glimpse into their forthcoming LP "Chaos". Pete Brock, Ted Pepper, and Sydd Spudd the self-dubbed aristocrats of punk thrive in the deep end of the human psyche here. The track relies on an angular, staccato post-punk melody that frantically steps up and down. It drags you directly into...