Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...

Montreal’s Eternal Mourning drags our collective emotional baggage directly into the daylight with their profoundly sweeping new single, "Father Shoes". Handpicked from the 2025 album "What I Saw Is History", and clearing the path for their next track "Computer Silence", this latest cut zeroes in on the bizarre, utterly normal terror of trying to live up to a familial legacy. https://open.spotify.com/track/1xJANb5tDe1BiUDvaf51IN?si=2f291161dff34f8b It begins with a sparse,...