Rubanq’s “Worldwide Dead” slides into your listening not with a bang, but with the gritty inevitability of a slowly tightening knot. Joel Patric, the Gothenburg mind behind this introspective project, isn’t serving up easy comforts. Instead, he’s crafting a heavy-hearted chronicle of our digital descent, a sort of sonic warning flare fired from a shoreline most of us are too screen-addled to even see. https://open.spotify.com/track/7EW97ayWhXaAWreULBkoOB?si=43235d208a2a4ea3 The...

Mtnt’s new single, “Limousine (Na Na Na),” arrives with its engine humming a curious tune, promising a collision of "the original sway of Bublé" and M83’s electronic expansiveness. An odd pairing, on paper. Like finding a perfectly tailored tuxedo discarded at a warehouse rave, maybe? Or catching Sinatra’s ghost attempting the robot under a malfunctioning disco ball. The mind, it does wander. https://open.spotify.com/album/7eO3S5ev6plUTpZgVGiRc0?si=yd52gBQ-QeSEpR-15S9uBw This track is...