Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...

Vancouver’s 20-year-old mood-architect 13illy just dropped a new single, "NOTHING W/O YOU," that captures the exact shade of blue your bedroom ceiling takes on at 3 AM. It operates on a compelling sonic paradox. He lays down a dreamy, melancholic loop that continuously circles your head, eventually anchoring it to a cavernous low-end pulse and sharp, fast-paced trap snaps. It is an infectious, bouncy...