Garbage Garden unpacks the suffocating atmosphere of industrialized wellness on their brilliant new single, "Self-luminescent." The Kobe-based project tackles a very specific modern phantom: the heavy, plastic weight of commodified positivity. We are continually spoon-fed packaged emotional narrative those shrink-wrapped self-love mantras that look great on a billboard but leave the actual human spirit completely hollow. Instead of simply critiquing the noise, this track...

There is a specific, agonizing silence that occurs right after you lay your heart completely bare. It is the vacuum of space before the other person responds. Swedish pop artist Sebastian Rydgren steps directly into that terrifying void with his new single, "Talk To Me". He does not offer a comfortable resolution. Instead, he forces the listener to sit in the unbearable tension of a...