Beauty can stop feeling personal when pleasing others becomes its goal. A choice becomes a duty. But who gets to decide when someone has done enough? That question offers a way into “Plastic Angels”, the single The Cunning Linguists. The Sydney trio addresses modern beauty standards and the pressures they place on women. Instead of praising an ideal, they question the demands behind it. The single directs...

Some EPs ask you to sit with your feelings. 'Dancing On The Event Horizon' grabs those feelings by the collar, turns the amps up, and tells them to move. Tár, the alternative rock band from Szczecin, Poland, have built a four-track release that feels heavy without getting stuck, emotional without dragging its feet, and nostalgic without sounding trapped in someone else’s record collection. The band calls...