Patrick Hynes’ new single, "Baby’s High Again," doesn't so much arrive as materialize, like a half-remembered scent of bourbon and regret clinging to a velvet curtain. This “Midnight Country” he’s cultivating, it’s less dusty plains, more the blue, flickering light of a motel television at 3 AM, illuminating a room where decisions have been made, then unmade, then made again. Hynes, a Scot with...

Oaken Wires shared their new single "Parakeets", introducing a remarkably chaotic sort of survival energy into the current alternative rock space. The Tottenham duo, Jake and Tim, crossed paths while looking after their kids at a local park, blending vastly different musical backgrounds into a project they pitch as a clash between man and machine. https://open.spotify.com/track/7lLqbPyZI3oPMRy6kT79W5?si=a0c8741a902d401e You can physically feel that friction in the track. A...