Empty Pinata – remember LA Rodriguez? – serves up the single "Bonfire," and honestly, the air changes slightly when you play it. It’s less like passively listening and more like discovering a singed diary page fluttering down a quiet street. The music itself is this curious contradiction, wrapping harrowing emotional shrapnel in the comforting gauze of indie-pop, flecked with soft rock warmth. A strangely...

Gary Mictian can be considered as one of the artists who are forging a path in the hyperpop area with his new single "I Can't Do This Anymore." This song is a predecessor of Mictian’s most popular debut album "Nosedive" which doesn’t include any of the conventional elements of electronic pop and at the same time evokes some fragments of dystopian science fiction and cinematic...