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...

There's a curious jolt in hearing a title like "Us Against The World" from an act called The Cockney Cowboy. The name itself is a glorious contradiction, a pairing of gritty East London reality with the wide-open romance of Nashville. You half expect a joke, but what Justin Vella delivers is a dead-serious, straight-shooting country ballad that smells less of hay bales and more...