Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Alright, let’s talk about 808TSIE and their new single, "Dub Drive." This isn’t a review in the stuffy sense, more like a… sonic snapshot, if that makes sense. Belgium, dub techno, a Tascam recorder – these words paint a picture, don't they? Of someone hunched over hardware, maybe the kind of person who still knows how to use a rotary phone. I appreciate that...