There's an intimacy to the new FREE/MAN release, "The Reconnection EP," that borders on a welcome invasion of personal space. It is the sonic equivalent of someone leaning in, not to share a secret, but to create the silence where your own might finally surface. Charlie Freeman hasn't built a grand cathedral of sound here; he's simply furnished a quiet room with stark, necessary...

Some songs slink into existence like they’ve emerged from a digital jungle, chrome vines and all. Super Massive’s latest single, "Caught In A Web," doesn’t just step into the foliage; it practically swings from the branches. Glenn Abbott’s tight, pulsating drum rhythms instantly provide the scaffolding, while Malina Hamilton-Smith’s vocals glide, entangle, and occasionally sting like the titular web’s arachnid inhabitant. It grooves like...