Near Death Experience's single, "Shake," arrived not so much as music, but as a sudden, urgent insistence. It’s London psych-rock-soul alright, but brewed with something fiercely immediate, demanding attention like a ringing telephone in an empty room. The core quartet – Ian Whiteling guiding the trip with vocals and guitar fuzz, Joshua Van Ness laying down a heartbeat that feels both frantic and locked-in,...

JNabe catches the bruised neon light of a late-night club beautifully on "Respect Her Bag", delivering a hypnotic shift in tempo and perspective. The Kansas City native creates a distinctly tropical friction here, pulling threads of American Dancehall, R&B, and Reggaeton into a tight, swaying groove. https://open.spotify.com/album/0do6LhVCOx38p7zK48s6GY?si=gZAi6YpaTmGqYIH8PhP_EQ It rolls on a bouncy, syncopated pulse. A driving low-end foundation locks perfectly into bright, repetitive melodic phrasing. Featuring...