Lessons in Crime’s new single, "Reply ASAP," bounces along with the kind of infectious energy you’d want for a summer road trip, but it’s a smokescreen for a uniquely modern state of inertia. It feels less like a rock song and more like one of those old pneumatic message tubes from a 1940s department store—all zip and kinetic energy on the outside, but inside,...

In "Resurrection," Beta Libre's defiant new single from her forthcoming sophomore album, becomes mythology. Through pulsing Moog synthesisers and razor-sharp poetry, the Italian electronic artist turns monthly bleeding into a holy cycle of death and rebirth, which is similar to Christian stories about the resurrection but more feminine. This is feminism as sound magic and the body as religion. Beta Libre, the Tuscan singer, composer, and...