RoofTop Screamers’ "Blink of an Eye" has a way of unpacking itself in your mind long after the last note fades, like finding a single, unexplainable sequin on your collar hours after leaving a particularly vivid party. It struts in with this curious collision of sounds – a pinch of power pop’s bright-eyed yearning, the jagged, insistent pulse of new wave, a defiant shimmer...

There's a specific kind of night drive baked into Bromsen's new single, "Data Highway," the sort where the headlights of oncoming traffic begin to hypnotize, and you forget if you’re running from something or just running. The Berlin trio—Richard and Karlo Bromsen, now propelled by the engine of Bon Schmelke's drums—has crafted a track that moves at a hundred miles per hour yet somehow...