HoneyBones’ “The Call of Baba Yaga” starts with a cry and refuses to hurry. The second single opens with a high female vocal gesture, then a heavy electronic pulse takes hold. Melinda Joy and Juro Kosec shape that slow burn into dark downtempo ritual music, using layered electronica, industrial grit and rock pressure. Baba Yaga stays at the record’s centre, but the invitation around her remains...

WAIN’s debut EP, "Still Colorful", arrives not as a singular declaration but as a meticulously curated gallery of the self, with one man acting as architect, painter, and lighting technician all at once. It’s an unusual feeling, listening to it. You get the sense that you’re touring a house designed and built by a single, obsessive artisan, but where every room is inhabited by...