When Albuquerque solo artist blue pablo dropped "baby, mess me entirely," a deeply unsettling question crawled into the room: why do we so eagerly swallow the very things that tear us apart? https://open.spotify.com/track/0cOvUVf1g8cTeMo07fBSiU?si=qI6PBuP4RGG2LmBMh384fA Working alongside producer Mateo Gutierrez, blue pablo has crafted a hypnotic cut of alternative R&B and dark pop. It begins with a severely visceral sequence chewing glass, slicing gums, digesting, throwing up. That...

Ghosting rarely gets the courtesy of a final scene. Steph Casey gives it one anyway, filling it with overdriven guitar, drums, split-octave vocals and a chorus ready to answer back. “10,000 Hail Marys” is a grunge-pop and punk-pop single about the guilt left behind when a relationship ends in disappearance. Casey makes the unanswered message move at full speed, turning frustration into release. The Kapiti Coast singer-songwriter...