Coline Blf is a Belgian author, performer, and filmmaker who is 23 years old and is from the city of Namur. Coline develops works in her image merging Bedroom pop and French pop. She was inspired as a youngster by the autonomous English-speaking subculture. Her vintage and sunny musical cosmos is inspired by artists like Clairo and Mac Demarco, as well as several French-speaking musicians like...

The first few bars of HZPROD’s new single, “War Within (Radio Edit),” don’t so much start a song as they do raise a curtain on a scene already in grim, perpetual motion. There’s a cinematic weight here, a feeling of vastness and confinement all at once. The beat hits with the grim finality of a heavy vault door swinging shut, trapping you inside the...