Some tracks do not ask for your attention; they simply grab you by the collar and drag you onto the dancefloor. Tyler Shea has managed to do exactly that, but with a twist. His new single "Holly" is a massive, upbeat pop track built entirely around the deeply uncool experience of having a minor panic attack over a text message. It is the sonic equivalent of...

Rubanq’s “Worldwide Dead” slides into your listening not with a bang, but with the gritty inevitability of a slowly tightening knot. Joel Patric, the Gothenburg mind behind this introspective project, isn’t serving up easy comforts. Instead, he’s crafting a heavy-hearted chronicle of our digital descent, a sort of sonic warning flare fired from a shoreline most of us are too screen-addled to even see. https://open.spotify.com/track/7EW97ayWhXaAWreULBkoOB?si=43235d208a2a4ea3 The...