The Canadian-born NYC alt-pop artist Tori Lord  turns a bad act into a sleek, dark pop single with bite, poise, and replay value. "Conman" has the energy of watching someone’s perfect online persona glitch live. One second, the smile is glossy. The next, the lighting is too bright, the story does not add up, and Tori Lord is already two steps ahead. This new single from...

Rare Element (feat. Britt Foe from Lunar & the Deception) take on "Fields of Joy" as a single, and it lands like finding a meticulously crafted ship-in-a-bottle washed up on a neon-lit beach. You have the producer duo, Hedge Seel and Jerry Kandiah, laying down this framework of pulsing electronic heartbeats and synth textures that feel both organic and meticulously engineered, a surprising bedrock...