London artist and Circum-Sŏnus founder Antoin Gibson confronts the brittle architecture of human mortality on his dark new EP, "The Rise and Fall of Eternity". Rather than offering neat catharsis, Gibson uses his collision of industrial weight, bruised alternative pop, and theatrical storytelling to document a mind wrestling with terminal grief and societal decay. https://open.spotify.com/album/4AjH4iOfvXI7mz4X0nexHX?si=wC7EZWVVSHCx-v5ij8gamQ Opener “Introduction to the Unexplained” wastes no time with polite pleasantries....

Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...