Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...

NBP Human, the rock music project spearheaded by Balazs Janky, has returned with a sonic boom disguised as a single: "Morbid Craziness". Janky’s return to songwriting peels back the layers of our modern reality, presenting a gritty, yet strangely hopeful, analysis. https://open.spotify.com/track/0QydCcGjtDavFLV8igmDkJ?si=d50fc84fda6a41b0 "Morbid Craziness" throws a spotlight on the shadowy corners of a world obsessed with deceit. You know, the kind where your toaster probably judges...