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...

Where Industrial Meets the Afterlife: Twice Dark's Latest Single "Necromantic" Transforms Grief into Dark Electronic Gold It is easy to use nostalgia as an excuse for bad writing these days, but Twice Dark's "Necromantic" comes along like a psychic at midnight, more interested in holding its own sound séance than in talking to the dead. The mysterious artist behind this project, Josh Kreuzman, has made something...