Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...

When Riccardo Pietri sat down to record "Pas de Danse", I suspect the air in the room was heavier than usual. Marking his return to the sonic landscape after a two-year silence, this single feels less like a fanfare and more like a profound exhalation—the kind you make when you finally drop your bags after a long, confusing journey through a strange city. https://open.spotify.com/album/1zZIQR4PDVYeFoDYnoGdAz?si=MBue3ltCS3iNVEo8SuV6UA The track...