Listening to gnomes’ new EP, “Microclimbs,” feels less like hearing songs and more like stumbling upon a meticulously catalogued collection of internal weather systems. The Berlin artist has shed an acoustic skin, emerging with a sound that’s electric, nervy, and complex. This is music for feeling overwhelmed in a way that’s almost, dare I say it, cozy. https://open.spotify.com/album/6a9jnB0IcQDdP6BHLaHpdJ?si=1zS3355CRwe4oaDcdouNeA The warm, watery warble of a Wurli synth...

Lockdown Co., that dynamic London trio, has dropped "Frontier," an EP that feels like a sonic geology lesson. Leah Bell-Miller’s vocals add a new dimension to the already established foundation constructed by Lloyd Meeks on guitars and production and Doug Rimington battering the drums and bass. But instead of predictable sedimentary layers, we're talking volcanic upheavals and metamorphic shifts. https://open.spotify.com/album/2PkzXrktseJE4dHCLjkXI1?si=3emt8Cf-Q3a78OFWuxwuUw This EP, a cocktail of hard...