With “Island Lantern Festival”, Tony Frissore manages to soundtrack a specific kind of mental vacation I didn’t realize I was overdue for taking. Ostensibly an instrumental nod to the Lunar New Year and the hopefulness of renewal, this piece operates less like a celebration and more like a gentle exhalation. https://open.spotify.com/album/3n43BcxSnavYKC0wt28GNu?si=E_50eQ_lQomyHT1RsD2Jrg It starts wet with the actual crash of ocean waves before slowly drifting inland. I...

Experimental art-pop project Sehore confront the creeping sterility of automated life on their blistering new single, “IA”. Recorded in 2026 at Paco Loco Studio and mastered by Mario G. Alberni at Kadifornia, the track ditches polite restraint in favor of full-throttle garage and surf punk ferocity. https://open.spotify.com/track/2myiJYYxJZmsiq3NOrNIc0?si=67e5009d70d84b7c A gritty, distorted high-pitched hook slices through the fray, propelled forward by constant, crashing rhythmic strikes and a heavy,...