TC TENET’s new single, “Animals,” arrives with the sort of confident thud you’d expect from a well-aimed Doc Marten hitting a hollow stage. This isn't background music for tidying your sock drawer, unless your sock drawer is a portal to a field at 3 AM where everyone’s forgotten their own name but remembers every chord. It’s a full-throated roar into the now, a soundtrack...

As the name of the song implies, the purpose of this music is to improve your mood with each passing second and minute that you spend listening to it. Radwulf and Zero Sugar were aware of their roles in the song, and they played them to the best of their abilities. The music that has been given the moniker "Better" is the kind of song...