Sound Liberation’s “Elegy” isn’t so much an album as it is an unbolting of several sonic cages, letting the inhabitants mingle, argue, and eventually, find a strange, compelling harmony. Gene Pritsker and his rotating ensemble are, as ever, on a crusade against the "segregation of sound vibration," and here, their weapon of choice is grief, remembrance, and an absolutely defiant refusal to sit still...

The opening minutes with Beth Sarah’s new single, "Love is Dead", feel like watching a beautiful house of cards collapse in meticulously slow motion. It has all the architecture of a polished pop track, yet inside, a structural demolition is taking place. Sarah documents the aftermath of a heartbreak so profound it triggers an existential audit. The true devastation isn’t the loss of a...