With The Widows and their jagged new single "Bardo Blues", the speakers don't just output sound; they seem to physically sweat. From the opening seconds, this track captures the exact frequency of a nervous breakdown occurring in a dimly lit restroom of a venue that definitely violates several health codes. https://open.spotify.com/track/4U7900swNQAaAj2T5MxrqY?si=0f2168babd504508 This London quartet, Kim Le Tan, Francesco Manzi, Roger Salsas, and Vince Johnson, has been...

The new single “Zeeba Da Boo” from Ooberfuse arrives sounding like a magical phrase you’d chant to fix a sputtering time machine. It’s an immediate, fizzy concoction of electronic pop and electro swing, a sound so joyfully anachronistic it feels like watching flappers dance the Charleston under the glow of a smartphone screen. https://open.spotify.com/track/2t5nB4AO3dAMfBjhlm0Gg9?si=80c5c97c70a2474c Cherrie Anderson and Hal St John have constructed something peculiar here: a...