Independent New Jersey singer-songwriter Dorian transforms the suffocating gravity of a lover’s quarrel into a pulsing summer fever dream on his new single, “OOO”. Serving as a prelude to his highly anticipated upcoming album, “Reconnected”, the track operates on a deeply human contradiction. Dorian tackles the agonizing psychological toll of a volatile romantic relationship the manipulation, the broken promises, the desperate craving for an...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...