When Riccardo Pietri sat down to record "Pas de Danse", I suspect the air in the room was heavier than usual. Marking his return to the sonic landscape after a two-year silence, this single feels less like a fanfare and more like a profound exhalation—the kind you make when you finally drop your bags after a long, confusing journey through a strange city. https://open.spotify.com/album/1zZIQR4PDVYeFoDYnoGdAz?si=MBue3ltCS3iNVEo8SuV6UA The track...

Before listening to a single note of Suris’ new album, “Pertinax”, I spent a few minutes just looking at the word. Pertinax. It has the distinct ring of a Stoic philosopher’s last defiant utterance or maybe a type of beetle known for its unusually stubborn shell. What a curious flag to fly for a collection of songs in an age of fleeting distraction. But...