There is a distinct, almost tectonic rumble occurring now that Megapenny Music has dropped "Dance with Giants", a track that feels like the excavation of a lost city. Al Young, the mind behind the machinery, hasn’t produced music since the era when synthesizers were physically dangerous to move; forty years of silence broken not by a polite knock, but by a battering ram. https://open.spotify.com/track/34hGnDduq8Or3K24dcAn72?si=adc326c25a674847 Listening to...

With their single "Numbers Game," Grey Jacks has managed to build a deceptively inviting room inside a house that’s actively on fire. The foundation here is a slithering, almost hypnotic rock groove, driven by the lock-step pulse of Teddy Minton on drums and Howard Rabach on bass. It has that cool, coiled tension reminiscent of late-90s Radiohead, a sound that gets in your bones...