Lessons in Crime’s new single, "Reply ASAP," bounces along with the kind of infectious energy you’d want for a summer road trip, but it’s a smokescreen for a uniquely modern state of inertia. It feels less like a rock song and more like one of those old pneumatic message tubes from a 1940s department store—all zip and kinetic energy on the outside, but inside,...

The Parisian Litiges! quartet delivers a visceral debut single 'You're Freakin' Me Out' that explores the exhaustion of conditional love. There is a distinct, heavy gravity that settles into a room when an old argument is resurrected for the hundredth time. It is the kind of fatigue that settles deep into the bones, a weariness born not from physical labour but from the sheer emotional...