Owen Young, a mind steeped in the harmonies of law and fine art, unfurls “These Painted Flowers,” an EP blooming with the thorny beauty of the heart after the pandemic. It’s Americana, but not the porch swing kind—more like the kind where you stumble on a forgotten well, and peer in, seeing your reflection ripple back at you with new, confusing angles. These Painted Flowers...

When childhood friends Courtney Leo (vocalist) and Michael Bozzo (multi-instrumentalist and producer) formed THROES NYC, they seemingly tapped directly into a mainline of late-night Queens static to forge their new EP, "The Wires Out". Calling their self-described "altriphop" sound a simple blend of trip-hop and electronic alt-pop feels too sterile for a release this brilliantly frayed. https://open.spotify.com/album/30MTYDwz0rYmKukmH7ibpQ?si=NQZuIR4SRV2OBL1xo8W3pA These tracks revel in the messy circuitry of human...