Where Industrial Meets the Afterlife: Twice Dark's Latest Single "Necromantic" Transforms Grief into Dark Electronic Gold It is easy to use nostalgia as an excuse for bad writing these days, but Twice Dark's "Necromantic" comes along like a psychic at midnight, more interested in holding its own sound séance than in talking to the dead. The mysterious artist behind this project, Josh Kreuzman, has made something...

Earl Patrick pivots sharply away from his usual indie-folk and guitar-driven comfort zones for his newest release, the wildly inventive album "Conditioned By Machines". The Portland, Oregon-based composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has spent over two decades building a dense, eight-album catalog. Here, however, he entirely flips the script. Feeling that classical flute music too often prioritizes gesture over pure melody, he set out...