Tony Frissore has constructed something strikingly paradoxical with his latest instrumental release, the single "Four Walls". Listening to this track feels like watching a time-lapse of a foreign city skyline while sitting perfectly still in a high-thread-count bedsheet cocoon. It is motion and stasis arguing over who gets to drive the car. https://open.spotify.com/album/0qYskPaNcyO9PfVf4gM2RT?si=mSBJReRaT3yTkTzemACK_w The genre descriptors might label this Chill EDM or Deep House, but those...

With the arrival of Pandemonium's debut single, "Dalí", it feels as though someone has cracked open a geode on the studio console and let the crystalline chaos spill out. Billed as “pan-dimensional pirates,” the trio of Maffmatix, Claire Ray, and Charlton Banks deliver a sound that feels both ancient and beamed in from a strange future. It’s built on the sturdy spine of boom-bap,...