Listening to “Small Town Syndrome” by thinking silly is an exercise in delightful contradiction. Dylan Morrison’s project, shaped here by the production hand of collaborator Margot Taylor, builds a sleek, propulsive chassis of dark pop and minimal techno, only to house an engine of pure, grinding ache. It’s the sound of someone forcing a smile so wide their face hurts, a dance track for...

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...