True Emergency’s new single, "Where It Ends," feels less like something merely listened to and more like stumbling upon a very loud, very candid diary entry left open on a park bench in Montréal. Mick, the project's originator, now with his best friend alongside, doesn’t just pour heart and soul; they practically detonate them. https://open.spotify.com/track/5x0thsyXSP1XTVK1ClYfWX?si=WTZ_gJhOR9yRdDolwxwZZg The sound? Oh, it’s a gloriously conflicted thing: think massive, modern...

There are songs that sound like a place, and then there’s Neil Potter’s "Música El Idioma Del Amor," which sounds like a specific time of day in a specific place you’ve never been. It’s a curious creation, a sonic postcard from a parallel-universe Seville where the flamenco guitarist and the local rock progressive have decided to build something new on a foundation of pure...