The experimental electronic music has a new voice emerging from the beach of Iceland’s south shore. Kristrún in her debut EP of “Covet” as an autonomous musician, composer and music maker is biding attention to that world. This release is a darker take on heartbreak, jealousy, and loneliness taking place in an avant-garde soundscape. With parents who were musicians, Kristrún took her first steps into the...

The first few bars of HZPROD’s new single, “War Within (Radio Edit),” don’t so much start a song as they do raise a curtain on a scene already in grim, perpetual motion. There’s a cinematic weight here, a feeling of vastness and confinement all at once. The beat hits with the grim finality of a heavy vault door swinging shut, trapping you inside the...