A crowded pavement can make cruelty look ordinary. DirtPhunks' "Subway Reflections" asks us to stop accepting that. The guitar-first single grew from a sight FH Baloo could not shake. As an Oslo student, he saw an older wheelchair user playing harmonica for money outside a downtown subway station near the old University. Passers-by mocked him. Instead of treating that scene as passing colour, the single asks...

On “The Dome”, veteran producer and songwriter We’re in the Water closes out an ambitious conceptual triptych by turning his gaze directly toward the human soul. Having previously excavated the intellect on “The Steeple” and physical instinct on “The Belltower”, this third chapter examines survival from the inside out. For an artist whose history runs through the sweat-soaked heights of London’s electroclash crucible Nag...