When the storm finally breaks and the rain begins to fall, the immediate human instinct is often to seek shelter, to view the deluge as an interruption of the day’s intended rhythm. Yet, agrarian societies have long understood what modern life sometimes forgets: the downpour is not a setback, but a necessary precursor to growth. This philosophical shift, from enduring the weather to welcoming its nourishment,...

Listening to The Trusted’s new single, “Levitate,” is to willingly submit to a glorious, well-produced panic attack. From its opening moments, where frontman Tom Cunningham confesses to feeling like something to be discarded in the street, the track establishes a brutal vulnerability before yanking you into the dizzying orbit of another human being. It’s the sound of being so completely poleaxed by infatuation that...