UK-based singer, songwriter, and virtuoso violinist Asta Bria flips our collective sense of dread entirely on its head with "Virus" (Køla Remix). She built a lyrical framework around an unstoppable, overpowering contagion only to load that microscopic vessel with a radical, inescapable dose of global affection. It is a brilliant, unsettling contradiction. https://open.spotify.com/track/651GbhleS9N64FhoYHu8gp?si=dEplW27LQOqNK5reIhbBeQ In this first installment of an upcoming trilogy, Køla aggressively reworks the original...

Owen Young’s “Three” EP is like finding a worn, familiar photograph in an old box, only to discover the person in the picture is wearing a lampshade. It’s deeply personal, yet jarringly relevant to the world spinning outside my window. We are dealing with themes of impermanence, the kind that makes you check if the stove is off, twice, every time. You can tell...