Vie Jester’s new EP, ‘Masquerade’, presents itself like a costume box found in an attic that smells faintly of ozone and old, ambitious blueprints. This Los Angeles trio, typically weavers of their own heavy, harmonious rock tapestries laced with esoteric concerns, have opted for a different kind of unveiling: they’re trying on other people's clothes. https://open.spotify.com/album/0grUBCwpcgdKF29lBxWmLR?si=RTUUi7H3SC2oUUHu0TdHig A covers EP can be a curious beast. Here, Vie...

With Eye of TJ dropping "Letting Go of You (Acoustic)", I found myself staring at a crack in my ceiling, contemplating how the ghost of a scream can be heavier than the scream itself. You know that specific, ringing emptiness that fills a room after a nine-year war finally ends? That’s where this track lives. It sits in the debris. https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfEdpqzJNBFcmDaOwnJL3?si=5109fb7bcd564625 The project describes this release...