You know that feeling when your alarm goes off on a Tuesday, your bank account is looking rough, and you just want to throw your phone out the window? That specific brand of modern exhaustion needs a soundtrack. Enter "Life Lessons", the loud and loose sophomore album from East London's Disco Lizards. Instead of complaining about the state of things, they have decided to crank the...

Four songs, seventeen minutes, and a fortieth birthday. Zora Kirin’s "The Bones Are Beautiful" has a clean premise, but it refuses an easy emotional shortcut. The Berlin artist calls her debut solo EP hopecore, and the label fits because these songs make room for hard feelings before they reach for light. It is a focused indie folk listen that moves from early wonder to adult desire,...