RISE’s new single, “Lost For Words,” doesn’t sound like the slow, sad end of a relationship; it sounds like the starting pistol for the next phase of a life. Here is an anthem that throws its shoulders back, propelled by a velocity that feels less like running away and more like accelerating toward something certain. Alex Mahoney’s drumming provides a relentless forward momentum, a...

If loneliness had a sound but craved a dance floor, it might be what Twice Dark has conjured in their latest single, “Invisible Man.” This isn’t just a track—it’s a séance, a pulsating ceremony that summons the ghost of every time you’ve felt like a silhouette in someone else’s overcrowded room. Born out of Josh Kreuzman’s spectral vision in Bloomington’s shadows, “Invisible Man” grips...