Guess Pre's "Clarity." The name itself feels like a punchline missing its joke, or maybe the setup to a philosophical riddle I'm not equipped to solve. Gregory Stanton, the Wisconsin-based artist behind the moniker, has served up a nine-track album that's… well, it's trying to be a lot of things, and surprisingly, mostly succeeding. https://open.spotify.com/album/2hV27eRxEJp08kML02uRW1 This isn't background music for folding laundry. It's more like the...

Midnite Radio just dropped their soaring new single "Fear No Stars", offering a luminous glimpse into the euphoric ecosystem of their debut EP, "Auntie". The group a geographic collision of friends between Tennessee and Los Angeles composed of Lee Coram, Beak Wing, Ken Christianson, Miles Martin, and Jon Shearer excels at a peculiar sort of theatrical world-building. You press play, and suddenly the gravity...