There is a specific kind of cold that burns, like dry ice pressed against a fingertip, and that paradoxical sensation pervaded my entire weekend spent listening to the latest output from CMD.EXE, their debut full-length album "love.language.model". This collaboration between human musicians and machine intelligence hits with the weight of a pressurized cabin decompressing. It sits in that bruised, purple twilight between Electronic Rock...

Faint Halos smash headlong into our digitally fragmented reality with "I Don't Want to Know," an urgent, anxiety-laced blast of alt-rock. The Philadelphia band steered by founder and songwriter Paul Hashemi alongside Miguel Padro, Bill Hallinan, and Matt Cieljka has explicitly declared war on the modern crisis of engagement. Following their 2024 album "I can see a million lights", they continue to completely bypass sterile,...