For their fifth studio album, the Geneva-based indie rock outfit Sonic Rade shares "Berlin", an intensely resonant record heavily steeped in the aura of its namesake city. Relocating to the legendary Meistersaal the former Hansa Studios where acts like Bowie and Depeche Mode once operated the band allowed the physical walls of the room to hijack their live tracking. You feel those historical reverberations...

The club environment operates on its own internal clock. Minutes stretch into hours under the strobe lights, and hours compress into fleeting moments when the bass hits exactly right. It is a strange temporal distortion that electronic music producers have chased for decades. With his latest single "Time", Austin Feldman attempts to capture that exact phenomenon. He builds a track that feels less like a...