Listening to The Gilhoolys’ new single, "Bad Routine," is to feel the pressure of a low, grey sky just before it breaks. There’s a muscular, unapologetic rock energy here, the kind of sound forged in rooms with sticky floors and loud histories. It moves with a bruised swagger, the ghost of Thin Lizzy hanging around the edges of a decidedly modern indie rock angst,...

The new single “Zeeba Da Boo” from Ooberfuse arrives sounding like a magical phrase you’d chant to fix a sputtering time machine. It’s an immediate, fizzy concoction of electronic pop and electro swing, a sound so joyfully anachronistic it feels like watching flappers dance the Charleston under the glow of a smartphone screen. https://open.spotify.com/track/2t5nB4AO3dAMfBjhlm0Gg9?si=80c5c97c70a2474c Cherrie Anderson and Hal St John have constructed something peculiar here: a...