Sam Ostler’s new single, “Lights,” then. It unfolds less like a sudden, intrusive glare and more like the slow, determined burn of a really good stage light finally finding its mark after a prolonged blackout. It’s pop, yes, vibrant and undeniably contemporary as advertised – clean lines, clear intentions. Yet, there’s a certain satisfying heft beneath the melodic uplift, a feeling that these notes...

Far From Your Sun’s latest EP, "A Dream of Hell", demands that we stare directly into our own darkness to find a sliver of honest, jagged light. Operating out of Paris as a self-described "philosophy in motion," this project treats progressive rock as a multidisciplinary exorcism. They bypass the trap of empty technical showboating, instead channeling their inner chaos through sheer, unrelenting emotion. https://open.spotify.com/album/1dlrRDRCyvpZs0CutiuOA7?si=VdepTAjFRdG5HXsw9TXDXg The immersion...