This single. This single. Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and producer Omar has dropped "Better Be Lucky," and, well, I'm wrestling with a sonic octopus here. It's electric pop, sure, but it feels like pop that’s been put through a taffy puller of conflicting emotions. Did I just think about taffy? Why? Moving on. https://open.spotify.com/album/4qPGja59tO2IVMi2V2J79p?si=k7evvjeMSzKSkyfPV0m9AA The central theme – that brain-scrambling push-pull of a toxic relationship fueled by...

Lockdown Co., that dynamic London trio, has dropped "Frontier," an EP that feels like a sonic geology lesson. Leah Bell-Miller’s vocals add a new dimension to the already established foundation constructed by Lloyd Meeks on guitars and production and Doug Rimington battering the drums and bass. But instead of predictable sedimentary layers, we're talking volcanic upheavals and metamorphic shifts. https://open.spotify.com/album/2PkzXrktseJE4dHCLjkXI1?si=3emt8Cf-Q3a78OFWuxwuUw This EP, a cocktail of hard...