Listening to lumin's "On My Own" feels a bit like finding a thoughtfully folded note tucked into the spine of a library book you weren’t looking for. It unfolds a specific kind of disorientation, that modern ache of feeling adrift while supposedly surrounded by connection points. Lumin, a solo creator working out of Hurst, crafts this sentiment not with grand despair, but with a...

Sometimes you put on headphones expecting a brief escape, but Watch Me Die Inside's new single "Infinity Fall II" actively hunts down your peace of mind. The anonymous entity behind the project, Aleph, builds what they call an "Autopsy" out of these heavy sonic fragments, and this addition is brutally terrifying. The track opens with a shockingly delicate, melancholic sequence. It tricks you. It...