With The Vildes releasing "Manicure for the Strangers", I found myself instinctively checking my reflection in the black screen of my monitor, correcting a frown that absolutely no one was around to see. It’s an uncanny reaction, but then again, Ingvild Tafjord, Hilde Wahl, and Glenn Tvedt specialize in this specific breed of beautifully curated anxiety. They understand the weight of the mask. https://open.spotify.com/track/14FyhVuMhJ0bHGmlF08ztU?si=215d0df609044463 The track...

There is a specific kind of electricity that runs through Dying Habit and their latest album "There Is No Sky", a static charge that feels less like a new discovery and more like a memory you didn't know you had. Hailing from Anglesey, the quartet Nathan Jones, Alan Hart, Daniel Garner, and Mark Jones has managed to bottle that peculiar, restless friction of being...