Listening to Violet Whimsey’s new EP, “PERSEPHONE,” is a bit like finding an antique music box that only plays minor chords. You wind it up, expecting a delicate tune, but what emerges is something far more shadowed, intricate, and possessed of a strange, chilling beauty. This is dark pop that doesn’t just brood; it excavates. https://open.spotify.com/album/0mrzzMpWVM7kKEWam6vTQP?si=D4ysByaOQCOEwElRdWm0Bg The collection is a descent, a guided tour through various...

Some endings arrive without the noise people expect from heartbreak. They come instead as a room left too neat, a cup washed before leaving, a name saved on a phone that suddenly feels heavier than the device itself. In that private territory, where affection remains but love has changed its address, G-String places "Breathe In Your Dust." The single does not treat separation as theatre. It...