The single from Syracuse’s ORWAX, “Everything's Addictive,” doesn’t so much ask a question as it does state a grim, unblinking diagnosis for the modern soul. From its first notes, the track establishes itself not as a party anthem for self-destruction, but as the sound of the machine humming underneath our choices. The trio—a self-contained unit of Ryan and Jim Moran, with Jason Randall on...

With Eye of TJ dropping "Letting Go of You (Acoustic)", I found myself staring at a crack in my ceiling, contemplating how the ghost of a scream can be heavier than the scream itself. You know that specific, ringing emptiness that fills a room after a nine-year war finally ends? That’s where this track lives. It sits in the debris. https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfEdpqzJNBFcmDaOwnJL3?si=5109fb7bcd564625 The project describes this release...