Rubanq’s “Worldwide Dead” slides into your listening not with a bang, but with the gritty inevitability of a slowly tightening knot. Joel Patric, the Gothenburg mind behind this introspective project, isn’t serving up easy comforts. Instead, he’s crafting a heavy-hearted chronicle of our digital descent, a sort of sonic warning flare fired from a shoreline most of us are too screen-addled to even see. https://open.spotify.com/track/7EW97ayWhXaAWreULBkoOB?si=43235d208a2a4ea3 The...

With the passage of time, it becomes increasingly important to have quiet time and space in which to process complex ideas. You must honor that under any circumstances. Having said that, Cullen Jack is hoping that things will get back to normal and that he will be fine even if you don't end up going. He sings about this and other related issues in his new...