With "A Piece of Me," Western Australia’s Bailey Perrie offers up a pop rock grenade with the pin already pulled, cleverly disguised as a twisted love song. It thunders forward with a cinematic, arena-ready confidence that makes its raw, emotionally brutalist core all the more disarming. The effect is something like finding a tear-stained diary page taped to the side of a massive firework...

Right, let's dive into this sonic soup, shall we? Al Kenizo's "Dont lock me out," a single teasing an upcoming album, has arrived. And… it's doing things. Things to my ears, things to my soul, possibly things to the structural integrity of my coffee table, which I may or may not have started tapping my foot on. https://open.spotify.com/album/3zlLqdL4N4H60BALBvqTcF?si=yZSd1aJuSc-2tn-R0OuikA The genre is tagged as "Soulful Electronic," and,...