Lylantz guarantees you will not walk away from "Your God Is My Devil" feeling entirely okay. His self-produced tenth full-length album is an active, confrontational dive into the darkest corners of the human psyche. As the architect of a wildly fluid sound he dubs "Post-Modern Gothic," Lylantz crafts visceral art for his self-described "Black Swans" the outsiders, the iconoclasts, the perpetually misunderstood. https://open.spotify.com/album/4OyTHP0j5kqLgzkrH3Z0lN "Ante Meridiem" kicks open the door with suffocating...

Lessons in Crime’s new single, "Reply ASAP," bounces along with the kind of infectious energy you’d want for a summer road trip, but it’s a smokescreen for a uniquely modern state of inertia. It feels less like a rock song and more like one of those old pneumatic message tubes from a 1940s department store—all zip and kinetic energy on the outside, but inside,...