With his globe-trotting new EP "Level Up", Recife-born producer and artist Krey Galin treats personal triumph as an open-source frequency meant to cross borders without passport control. Operating between Brazil and the United States under Elemental Entertainment Inc., Galin assembles an international circle of songwriters and studio collaborators to map out a single, unyielding obsession: the intoxicating certainty that you are bound for greatness,...

Some songs arrive like warnings from streets that have already learned the smell of rain on hot concrete. Before the first shout fully settles, there is a sense that bodies are gathering, feet are refusing to move, and some private fear has been pushed into daylight. Total Reverends build that pressure into 'The Revolution Is Inevitable', a single that treats rock music as a public...