Before a guitar chord can become an argument, it usually begins as a private disturbance. A television flickers in a locked-down room. A former sailor sees an old enemy image placed beside a strange public gesture of peace. That is the uneasy ground beneath "War Killer," the Reetoxa and it gives the track its charge: not polish for its own sake, but a human reaction...

Elliot Minor, those British rock-revivalists, are back from a decade-plus slumber. They've re-emerged, instruments blazing, with their new single "How Does It Feel." You know, the ones who always managed to sneak a cello into a mosh pit? That's them. Five members, still kicking. https://open.spotify.com/track/67pBtCFIlV0yPrkuLJ4FzK?si=EtxH00rOTsiYJ4CYRQQhqg "How Does It Feel" digs into that gloriously messy space where outward success crashes headfirst into inner turmoil. They are painting...