Tony Frissore has constructed something strikingly paradoxical with his latest instrumental release, the single "Four Walls". Listening to this track feels like watching a time-lapse of a foreign city skyline while sitting perfectly still in a high-thread-count bedsheet cocoon. It is motion and stasis arguing over who gets to drive the car. https://open.spotify.com/album/0qYskPaNcyO9PfVf4gM2RT?si=mSBJReRaT3yTkTzemACK_w The genre descriptors might label this Chill EDM or Deep House, but those...

There is a peculiar friction to the digital textures of Skylarka and her new album, "Somnorine". It’s supposed to be chiptune-influenced synthwave, but listening to it feels less like browsing the internet and more like chewing on aluminum foil while watching Blade Runner on a CRT monitor that’s slowly degaussing. It’s a sensory contradiction bright, crystalline pop hooks wrestling with the deep, existential dread...