There is a specific kind of cold that burns, like dry ice pressed against a fingertip, and that paradoxical sensation pervaded my entire weekend spent listening to the latest output from CMD.EXE, their debut full-length album "love.language.model". This collaboration between human musicians and machine intelligence hits with the weight of a pressurized cabin decompressing. It sits in that bruised, purple twilight between Electronic Rock...

Decades after their 1989 North London genesis, indie rock veterans The Sway have resurfaced to deliver "The Grief (Remix by Harry Kook)", a dizzying, noise-soaked sprint through sheer emotional collapse. Back in the early 90s, they gathered steady traction before stepping away into a long hiatus. Now reunited in their original configuration David Casson, Jim Kook, Sean Kelly, and Paul Hogan they sound fiercely...