Listening to 37 Houses and their new EP "Strangers" feels entirely like stumbling into an intensely intimate therapy session that miraculously transforms into a sweat-soaked 90s indie rock show. https://open.spotify.com/album/62NSIkN8J6ijONhErDTwtA?si=izu4NevqSeyI1vEjS9eAxg The San Francisco quartet operates as an open diary for lead singer Erin Sydney and guitarist Jeremy Rosenblum. Trapped in lockdown a mere four months after their wedding, their music processes the bewildering grief, angst, and...

Land Mass, the London-based solo endeavor of Greg Zucker, maps the strange geography of human retreat on the new EP, "Fading". He wrote, recorded, and mixed this entire project himself in an East London flat, and you can almost feel the physical boundaries of that room pressing against the sound. Zucker leans heavily into the bruised, atmospheric territories charted by bands like Slowdive and...