With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

You can feel the heat radiating off this project from the very first second. Lylantz has dropped an album that acts as a twenty-track inferno, demanding your immediate attention from the jump. The sheer scale of the project is staggering, offering an intense look into the mind of an artist who refuses to play it safe. "Zero" is heavy, unapologetic, and completely unbothered by traditional...