Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...

You know that exact moment when the group chat goes dead silent because someone finally said the thing everyone else was too scared to type? That is the exact frequency Chloe Jessica is operating on with her second single, "Bitch in a Dress." 'Bitch In A Dress' is a straight shot of adrenaline for anyone who has ever been labelled the bad guy just for...