Before a guitar chord can become an argument, it usually begins as a private disturbance. A television flickers in a locked-down room. A former sailor sees an old enemy image placed beside a strange public gesture of peace. That is the uneasy ground beneath "War Killer," the Reetoxa and it gives the track its charge: not polish for its own sake, but a human reaction...

Dan Webb flips the script with his exhilarating new single, "Thai Basil", ditching existential dread for unabashed celebration. As the third preview of his upcoming fifth studio album, "Lion Dance", the track stands apart from that record’s looming contemplations of Taoist philosophy, displacement, and loss. Instead of wrestling with cosmic grief, Webb throws a straight-up party. https://open.spotify.com/track/04Ey67MP4SvGYkDqXD5CEA?si=a9d8adf312c8461a Without a single vocal line to steer the room,...