The Austin-based songwriter Alex Winters turns the terrifying act of emotional surrender into a towering alt-rock confession. There is a specific kind of silence that occupies a room right before a heavy truth is spoken aloud. It is thick, suffocating, and entirely self-imposed. We build fortresses out of our past traumas, stacking bricks of deflection and mortar of avoidance to guarantee nothing can ever hurt us...

Listening to Social Gravy and their latest single, "Rapture and Rupture," is an experience akin to watching a high-speed collision in reverse where the shrapnel defies gravity to form something whole, beautiful, and startlingly resilient. The Los Angeles duo, comprised of Brad Kohn and Vee Bordukov, constructs a sonic landscape here that feels less like a song and more like a fever breaking. https://open.spotify.com/album/72Lee0QmI1x2os3l6p96DP?si=KIJTBNpIRfiEqibCumvzoQ The track...