There is a specific, fleeting hue of orange that only seems to hit the underside of clouds in late October, and listening to Kazu Osumi and her new single "Times of Love" feels exactly like watching that color fade into gray. It is an acoustic embrace that somehow feels both incredibly heavy and lighter than air. https://open.spotify.com/track/2dUYxf7zEiLxRX8bTs3emW?si=39081e63a0b94c7c The track situates itself in an Alternative Pop-Rock landscape,...

Dunedin electronic rock duo Robots in Love have returned with their bruising new single, “Cease and Desist.” Comprising Elenor Rayner and Alex Burchell, the Aotearoa/New Zealand project operates along the jagged fault line where modern metalcore meets dark, industrial club music, and their latest track is a suffocating dispatch from the grip of runaway limerence. https://open.spotify.com/track/1AZSQ9fvSqB8efxwlFtUrw?si=26ec9fd6720f4347 The song charts that alarming threshold where a simple infatuation...