Gary Mictian can be considered as one of the artists who are forging a path in the hyperpop area with his new single "I Can't Do This Anymore." This song is a predecessor of Mictian’s most popular debut album "Nosedive" which doesn’t include any of the conventional elements of electronic pop and at the same time evokes some fragments of dystopian science fiction and cinematic...

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,...