With the release of the single "Play Me A Christmas Song", Stephen Dowd manages to bottle the very specific, blue-hued silence that falls over a living room once the wrapping paper has been cleared away. It is a curious thing, really, how a melody can act less like a sound wave and more like the smell of a candle that was blown out five...

Lylantz guarantees you will not walk away from "Your God Is My Devil" feeling entirely okay. His self-produced tenth full-length album is an active, confrontational dive into the darkest corners of the human psyche. As the architect of a wildly fluid sound he dubs "Post-Modern Gothic," Lylantz crafts visceral art for his self-described "Black Swans" the outsiders, the iconoclasts, the perpetually misunderstood. https://open.spotify.com/album/4OyTHP0j5kqLgzkrH3Z0lN "Ante Meridiem" kicks open the door with suffocating...