Patrick Hynes’ new single, "Baby’s High Again," doesn't so much arrive as materialize, like a half-remembered scent of bourbon and regret clinging to a velvet curtain. This “Midnight Country” he’s cultivating, it’s less dusty plains, more the blue, flickering light of a motel television at 3 AM, illuminating a room where decisions have been made, then unmade, then made again. Hynes, a Scot with...

Dunedin electronic rock duo Robots in Love have returned with their bruising new single, “Cease and Desist.” Comprising Elenor Rayner and Alex Burchell, the Aotearoa/New Zealand project operates along the jagged fault line where modern metalcore meets dark, industrial club music, and their latest track is a suffocating dispatch from the grip of runaway limerence. https://open.spotify.com/track/1AZSQ9fvSqB8efxwlFtUrw?si=26ec9fd6720f4347 The song charts that alarming threshold where a simple infatuation...