There is a specific texture to darkness near the sea, a kind of humid weight that Jánnos Eolou captures with startling precision in "Night Beyond". Listening to this album is like walking through a house you lived in twenty years ago: the floorboards creak in familiar places, but the furniture has been rearranged just enough to make you question your own memory. https://open.spotify.com/album/13nZr5TejxHZJ6VOeKA0pi?si=yZSLjF47Ro2FwoAO6SJ34g Eolou, a veteran...

This is the kind of breakup track that checks your pulse before you have time to act fine. Drew Swords comes in hot on "Better Without Me?", a 3:32 indie rock single that turns one ugly little question into a full-body rush: what if someone really did get happier after you left? That thought can ruin a perfectly good afternoon. It can also make a chorus...