London artist and Circum-Sŏnus founder Antoin Gibson confronts the brittle architecture of human mortality on his dark new EP, "The Rise and Fall of Eternity". Rather than offering neat catharsis, Gibson uses his collision of industrial weight, bruised alternative pop, and theatrical storytelling to document a mind wrestling with terminal grief and societal decay. https://open.spotify.com/album/4AjH4iOfvXI7mz4X0nexHX?si=wC7EZWVVSHCx-v5ij8gamQ Opener “Introduction to the Unexplained” wastes no time with polite pleasantries....

It takes a certain kind of ideological whiplash to shift from navigating corporate property deals to aggressively narrating the downfall of humanity, but at 74, Stephen Wicks introduces his single "The Doomsday Clock" with the blazing clarity of someone watching civilization slip off the edge. https://open.spotify.com/track/70JffY8Y63JRdjn98A1fMB?si=xK17Z-ERQO-o2he9oKPX-g The Hertford-based entrepreneur-turned-songwriter channels his late-in-life reinvention to confront a cocktail of existential horrors: geopolitical collapse, climate crisis, unchecked AI,...