NBP Human, the rock music project spearheaded by Balazs Janky, has returned with a sonic boom disguised as a single: "Morbid Craziness". Janky’s return to songwriting peels back the layers of our modern reality, presenting a gritty, yet strangely hopeful, analysis. https://open.spotify.com/track/0QydCcGjtDavFLV8igmDkJ?si=d50fc84fda6a41b0 "Morbid Craziness" throws a spotlight on the shadowy corners of a world obsessed with deceit. You know, the kind where your toaster probably judges...

Violet Love has offered up an EP titled "Destined to Fail," and it arrives less like a prediction and more like a pre-existing condition, a medical chart for a soul that’s been diagnosed with itself. The DIY recording quality doesn’t feel lo-fi for aesthetics; it feels necessary, like these songs could only have been born in a sealed-off room where the air was getting...