Listening to Libby Ember’s single “Alibi” is a study in strange emotional temperatures. The sound is a down-tempo, sun-dusted blanket of soft guitars and gentle synth pads, the kind of arrangement you’d put on to feel safe. But the feeling it leaves behind is a deep, architectural cold, the kind you find in the shadowed corners of an old stone church long after the...

Annika Bellamy just dropped her original single "Palm Tree," and it instantly triggers an odd but deeply compelling sense of sunny existential whiplash. Based in Southern California with a vibrant mix of Dutch, Indonesian, and European Spanish heritage, Bellamy delivers electronic pop that vibrates with fascinatingly opposed energies. https://open.spotify.com/album/6ivAZ1C2GnRlXzS2F1NPVr It feels like a beach vacation booked mid-crisis. The track is built on a clear invitation to...