The Patra band’s self-titled debut album "Timeless Afternoon" hits with prog rock patience, psych rock colour, blues grit and a collector’s vinyl pulse. Some albums feel like a group chat that finally stopped buffering. Timeless Afternoon’s self-titled debut album comes packed with songs that waited decades to reach listeners, but there is nothing sleepy about it. This is Greek progressive rock with stained fingers, warm tubes,...

Dunedin electronic rock duo Robots in Love have returned with their bruising new single, “Cease and Desist.” Comprising Elenor Rayner and Alex Burchell, the Aotearoa/New Zealand project operates along the jagged fault line where modern metalcore meets dark, industrial club music, and their latest track is a suffocating dispatch from the grip of runaway limerence. https://open.spotify.com/track/1AZSQ9fvSqB8efxwlFtUrw?si=26ec9fd6720f4347 The song charts that alarming threshold where a simple infatuation...