London-based band Harsh Language recently dropped their staggering new single "Helium Heart," successfully capturing the untethered, dizzying panic of sudden grief. The three-piece Sean Shreeve, Rob Green, and Alec Albury wrestle with an incredibly difficult headspace here. They boldly smash the raw, muscular grit of progressive metalcore against the bruised melancholy of electronica, forging an aggressively heavy, boundary-defying soundscape. https://open.spotify.com/track/2ObVXZYfe16OiJd44zSSIy?si=00913aad74f2461a Grief is a chaotic animal, and...

The club environment operates on its own internal clock. Minutes stretch into hours under the strobe lights, and hours compress into fleeting moments when the bass hits exactly right. It is a strange temporal distortion that electronic music producers have chased for decades. With his latest single "Time", Austin Feldman attempts to capture that exact phenomenon. He builds a track that feels less like a...