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...

Swedish-Balkan artist GINAxC drops her new single "Liar on Fire" with the heavy, deeply satisfying thud of a flipped dining table. She’s currently navigating the Eurovision circuit via San Marino, yet this track wholly rejects the sunny escapism of contest pop in favor of neon vengeance. https://open.spotify.com/track/7FFkidOKj0o9wIk2syVZfd?si=6acef3d535cc4660 This song operates inside the grim, sweaty machinery of a power shift. A relentless Europop progression drags you by...