Vienna-based digital architect turned sonic alchemist Mark Wink has entirely surrendered to the season on his new album, "Summer Vibes". After trading a corporate IT career for multi-disciplinary art blending human intuition with AI as a creative collaborator Wink seems genuinely obsessed with chasing a specific, golden latitude. Rooted in his own travels to the Maldives and the Croatian coast, the record is an...

This single. This single. Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and producer Omar has dropped "Better Be Lucky," and, well, I'm wrestling with a sonic octopus here. It's electric pop, sure, but it feels like pop that’s been put through a taffy puller of conflicting emotions. Did I just think about taffy? Why? Moving on. https://open.spotify.com/album/4qPGja59tO2IVMi2V2J79p?si=k7evvjeMSzKSkyfPV0m9AA The central theme – that brain-scrambling push-pull of a toxic relationship fueled by...