Watch Me Die Inside and their newest EP, "Infinity Fall III", document the modern human collapsing under its own weight, offering an experience that mentally exhausted me in the most brilliant way possible. The expansive artistic universe forged by Aleph demands attention, treating the audience as active Witnesses rather than casual bystanders. The resulting modern metal and cinematic fusion feels terrifyingly literal. It operates...

The most arresting thing about Laura M.’s “Fly Away” arrives before any attempt to overstate it: the single is the 15-year-old singer-songwriter’s first song written completely on her own. It takes the tender, melancholy pull of first love and gives it the perspective of someone meeting those feelings in real time. “Fly Away” makes room for a young writer’s first independent statement. Laura was born in...