Keogea navigates the crushing weight of expected betrayal on his bleak new single "BROKEN PROMISES". The New York City artist combines alternative hip-hop and emo rap into an atmosphere that feels brutally, intensely isolating. https://open.spotify.com/track/1MdCkCvhslCrdlrkAopLFw?si=465d2fd6778247b5 He anchors the track with a somber, plucked melodic loop. It repeats endlessly, mirroring a mind stuck on a painful, inescapable thought. Underneath, a massive, rhythmic bass pulse hits like an...

Before listening to a single note of Suris’ new album, “Pertinax”, I spent a few minutes just looking at the word. Pertinax. It has the distinct ring of a Stoic philosopher’s last defiant utterance or maybe a type of beetle known for its unusually stubborn shell. What a curious flag to fly for a collection of songs in an age of fleeting distraction. But...