Kade Sanders, performing under the moniker Transverse, alongside collaborator Caroline, has dropped a new single, “Moon and Back.” Known for weaving together chill pop, soft rock, and EDM, Transverse aims for a sound that’s as broad as it is uplifting. This solo flight, however, detours slightly… or does it? https://open.spotify.com/track/1FEYndltdYffeBQc4EJsoX?si=a123d9fde5434c52 “Moon and Back” is a sonic valentine, an outpouring of gratitude wrapped in Future Bass, a...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...