Lessons in Crime’s new single, "Reply ASAP," bounces along with the kind of infectious energy you’d want for a summer road trip, but it’s a smokescreen for a uniquely modern state of inertia. It feels less like a rock song and more like one of those old pneumatic message tubes from a 1940s department store—all zip and kinetic energy on the outside, but inside,...

Fish And Scale, a musical jewel from Nuremberg, Germany, is reverberating worldwide thanks to the release of his new EP, "Wonderful." This maestro, whose real name is Roland Walzlein, skillfully blends the harmony of nature with tantalising melodies in his compositions. His work transports listeners to an otherworldly realm where music tells stories and breaks through walls. Fish And Scale has cemented his name in the...