Listening to RIOT SON’s new single, “Loneliest at Best,” is a curious exercise in emotional time-travel. The sound pulls you back to the early 2000s, to a time of angular guitars and heartfelt, frayed-collar vocals. It has that nervous, shimmering energy of indie rock that always sounded best on a pair of wired headphones, the beat prodding you forward even as the lyrics confess...

Listening to Shery M navigate the pulsating, anxious corridors of "Goin Gone" feels like watching a high-speed train pass a quiet station; you catch glimpses of faces in the windows, but mostly, it is just wind, velocity, and the undeniable sense that something is leaving forever. https://open.spotify.com/album/64HupTsSPKfqTMzg4hUtUf?si=tPYF-a9_S1iN8D1M_fJUWA The single arrives wrapped in the glossy sheen of Global Pop and Dance-Pop, yet the engine driving it is...