If you’ve ever tried to catch a seagull mid-flight with a butterfly net, you’ll understand the elusive joy that Funky Blackman's "The Beach" EP serves up. Not that there are any feathered friends involved, directly. But the feeling? Yeah, it’s there, a fleeting, beautiful awkwardness. https://open.spotify.com/album/5Sk7pagwbS02FPhsKKAzOb?si=QYWmoCruQv2lw3xMISpLJQ This isn’t some synthesized shoreline; forget the stock wave sounds. This is a memory, maybe yours, maybe his, re-assembled. He’s...

Montreal five-piece Wave and Wire unleash a searing purge of bad blood on their new single, “Bullet.” The track opens with an echoing, subdued vocal melody hovering over a steady pulse before suddenly detonating into a frantic blast of skate-punk velocity and blown-out distortion. It pulls heavily from the sweat-drenched grit of ’90s alt-rock and Queens of the Stone Age, moving with the reckless...