UK-based singer, songwriter, and virtuoso violinist Asta Bria flips our collective sense of dread entirely on its head with "Virus" (Køla Remix). She built a lyrical framework around an unstoppable, overpowering contagion only to load that microscopic vessel with a radical, inescapable dose of global affection. It is a brilliant, unsettling contradiction. https://open.spotify.com/track/651GbhleS9N64FhoYHu8gp?si=dEplW27LQOqNK5reIhbBeQ In this first installment of an upcoming trilogy, Køla aggressively reworks the original...

She Becomes’ new single, “Necromancer”, has left me thinking less about music and more about the strange inscriptions one finds on very old gravestones. It’s a track that hangs in the air like November fog, built on guitars that feel like they’ve been dragged through damp, loamy soil and a bassline that has the coiled-up energy of a minor character in a Brontë novel,...