With their single "Numbers Game," Grey Jacks has managed to build a deceptively inviting room inside a house that’s actively on fire. The foundation here is a slithering, almost hypnotic rock groove, driven by the lock-step pulse of Teddy Minton on drums and Howard Rabach on bass. It has that cool, coiled tension reminiscent of late-90s Radiohead, a sound that gets in your bones...

DayEyez crashes ashore with "Cast Away," a single that feels less like a planned arrival and more like waking up amidst personal wreckage you vaguely remember building. Helmed by Shaun Dayman from Richmond, New Zealand, this AI-driven alt-rock project tackles profound regret with a sound both cinematically huge and intimately crushing. Forget grand catastrophes; the narrative here is the slow, insidious rot of relationship...