Houston-based psych-rock duo The Shrubs return with "Let Us In", a frantically catchy single that basically sugarcoats a societal breakdown in layers of infectious fuzz. https://open.spotify.com/album/4DHZnz49JHoaX6Ce0uAdd6?si=xvATg3GHRyS6lHn1pLjiNw Miguel and Sophie have a fascinating knack for dragging fifty-year-old analog reel-to-reels and gritty cassettes into modern digital landscapes. Here, they have engineered a massive, heavily distorted wall of sound that races forward with a sweaty, desperate urgency. You catch...

“Coffee in The Morning,” the fourth single from BLINGOUTKID is a tender, introspective record born from a period of uncertainty, adolescence, and emotional upheaval. It finds beauty not in having all the answers, but in finding a reason to keep going, and was also produced by Trevor Brown and Zaire Koalo of The Orphanage. Then comes her first boyfriend—not as a saviour, but simply as a...