Shaven Primates Shares "Chasing The Dragon" EP: A Raw Exploration of Desire's Dark Corners Something wonderfully ironic about the fact that Shaven Primates, a band from Oxford, makes some of the most evolved dark wave art rock in the UK. Their most recent EP, "Chasing the Dragon," is not just an improvement; it is a conscious step back into darker soundscapes, and it works perfectly. Following their...

With "A Piece of Me," Western Australia’s Bailey Perrie offers up a pop rock grenade with the pin already pulled, cleverly disguised as a twisted love song. It thunders forward with a cinematic, arena-ready confidence that makes its raw, emotionally brutalist core all the more disarming. The effect is something like finding a tear-stained diary page taped to the side of a massive firework...