Mike Stewart Theory’s new single, “It Reaches Us,” feels less like a piece of music and more like a strange meteorological event happening inside your head. You’re immediately dropped into a groove that has the smooth, shoulder-rolling confidence of 80s soul, but something is off in the atmosphere. The air is thick with a psychedelic haze, a sense of temporal displacement that is both...

Kayla Marie Pulver steps into the shadow of "Indigo Night" not to displace the original, but to repaint the walls of its cavernous structure with a distinctly feminine, haunting lacquer. Covering a track known for its princely emotiveness is a bold move like deciding to re-architect a Gothic cathedral but Pulver strips away the grandiosity in favor of something far more insidious and creeping. https://open.spotify.com/album/4EXgEIzOqcCQSpspEhPhzY?si=QR_97jSCTem-5XnSium9aA The...