With “Island Lantern Festival”, Tony Frissore manages to soundtrack a specific kind of mental vacation I didn’t realize I was overdue for taking. Ostensibly an instrumental nod to the Lunar New Year and the hopefulness of renewal, this piece operates less like a celebration and more like a gentle exhalation. https://open.spotify.com/album/3n43BcxSnavYKC0wt28GNu?si=E_50eQ_lQomyHT1RsD2Jrg It starts wet with the actual crash of ocean waves before slowly drifting inland. I...

Montreal’s Eternal Mourning drags our collective emotional baggage directly into the daylight with their profoundly sweeping new single, "Father Shoes". Handpicked from the 2025 album "What I Saw Is History", and clearing the path for their next track "Computer Silence", this latest cut zeroes in on the bizarre, utterly normal terror of trying to live up to a familial legacy. https://open.spotify.com/track/1xJANb5tDe1BiUDvaf51IN?si=2f291161dff34f8b It begins with a sparse,...