There is a peculiar alchemy happening with Jimmy Eff and the Sundogs on their new single, "Better Like Before". It sits in the air like the smell of ozone right after a lightning strike charged, crisp, and signifying a sudden shift in the atmosphere. You listen to it, and you sort of expect the industrial gray of their Birmingham home base, yet the sound...

Listening to Shery M navigate the pulsating, anxious corridors of "Goin Gone" feels like watching a high-speed train pass a quiet station; you catch glimpses of faces in the windows, but mostly, it is just wind, velocity, and the undeniable sense that something is leaving forever. https://open.spotify.com/album/64HupTsSPKfqTMzg4hUtUf?si=tPYF-a9_S1iN8D1M_fJUWA The single arrives wrapped in the glossy sheen of Global Pop and Dance-Pop, yet the engine driving it is...