There's a specific kind of pleasant dread in the opening moments of Korda Korder’s new single, "You Still Turn Me Inside Out," like standing at the entrance of a cathedral you know is haunted by something benevolent. The East Sussex outfit calls this a gothic lament, and they aren't wrong, but it’s a lamentation born from awe, not sorrow. Guitars fall like silver rain...

There are nights when a glance across a party seems to gain the weight of weather. A small look becomes evidence, evidence becomes a case, and the mind, pleased with its own bad carpentry, starts building rooms no one asked to enter. "Oh My God", the new single by Don Drapery from the forthcoming 2026 album "Something Worth Repeating", lives inside that jump from minor...