Vienna-based digital architect turned sonic alchemist Mark Wink has entirely surrendered to the season on his new album, "Summer Vibes". After trading a corporate IT career for multi-disciplinary art blending human intuition with AI as a creative collaborator Wink seems genuinely obsessed with chasing a specific, golden latitude. Rooted in his own travels to the Maldives and the Croatian coast, the record is an...

When the Malaga-based duo My State unleashed "Its Whatever", I half-expected my speakers to start smoking—or at least demand an apology for the sudden surge in voltage. It is rare to hear a track that captures the precise auditory frequency of snapping a pencil in half out of sheer frustration, but here we are. This isn't polite radio fodder. It is high-octane pop-rock that forgot...