If you’ve ever tried to catch a seagull mid-flight with a butterfly net, you’ll understand the elusive joy that Funky Blackman's "The Beach" EP serves up. Not that there are any feathered friends involved, directly. But the feeling? Yeah, it’s there, a fleeting, beautiful awkwardness. https://open.spotify.com/album/5Sk7pagwbS02FPhsKKAzOb?si=QYWmoCruQv2lw3xMISpLJQ This isn’t some synthesized shoreline; forget the stock wave sounds. This is a memory, maybe yours, maybe his, re-assembled. He’s...

When the Los Angeles teen trio LED dropped their new single "YOUR PERFECT", I was violently thrown back into the absolute, suffocating gravity of toxic high school heartbreak. https://open.spotify.com/track/0rJAWp3Dgyob2Ao0kIbVw3?si=ac87993782c34a0a Edie Yvonne, Layne Olivia, and Lockett Pentz, kids who initially bumped into each other at a film camp have seemingly decided to skip cinematic pursuits in favor of crafting sheer, fuzzy vengeance. They construct the melody over...