Micah Rose-Trespeuch’s new album, "Coughing Up Blood," feels less like a listening experience and more like witnessing an urgent, almost involuntary act of transmutation. Rose-Trespeuch (piano, vocals), with Julien Baraness masterfully texturing the soundscapes and Gaetan Allard providing the often-fractured, sometimes thunderous pulse on drums, has crafted something akin to a diary written in volatile ink. One moment, you're amidst Chopin-esque piano runs that...

The club environment operates on its own internal clock. Minutes stretch into hours under the strobe lights, and hours compress into fleeting moments when the bass hits exactly right. It is a strange temporal distortion that electronic music producers have chased for decades. With his latest single "Time", Austin Feldman attempts to capture that exact phenomenon. He builds a track that feels less like a...