Listening to “Small Town Syndrome” by thinking silly is an exercise in delightful contradiction. Dylan Morrison’s project, shaped here by the production hand of collaborator Margot Taylor, builds a sleek, propulsive chassis of dark pop and minimal techno, only to house an engine of pure, grinding ache. It’s the sound of someone forcing a smile so wide their face hurts, a dance track for...

There is a distinct, almost tectonic rumble occurring now that Megapenny Music has dropped "Dance with Giants", a track that feels like the excavation of a lost city. Al Young, the mind behind the machinery, hasn’t produced music since the era when synthesizers were physically dangerous to move; forty years of silence broken not by a polite knock, but by a battering ram. https://open.spotify.com/track/34hGnDduq8Or3K24dcAn72?si=adc326c25a674847 Listening to...