When childhood friends Courtney Leo (vocalist) and Michael Bozzo (multi-instrumentalist and producer) formed THROES NYC, they seemingly tapped directly into a mainline of late-night Queens static to forge their new EP, "The Wires Out". Calling their self-described "altriphop" sound a simple blend of trip-hop and electronic alt-pop feels too sterile for a release this brilliantly frayed. https://open.spotify.com/album/30MTYDwz0rYmKukmH7ibpQ?si=NQZuIR4SRV2OBL1xo8W3pA These tracks revel in the messy circuitry of human...

Forrest Hill’s "Flow Like a River" washes in, not as a gentle meander, but more like that quiet, insistent trickling that eventually, if you listen closely, carves new landscapes in the mind. This single, the apparent linchpin for his upcoming album "Beyond the Veil," feels like a hushed conversation you didn’t realize you were desperately eavesdropping on, perhaps with your own frayed inner self...