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...

The first few bars of HZPROD’s new single, “War Within (Radio Edit),” don’t so much start a song as they do raise a curtain on a scene already in grim, perpetual motion. There’s a cinematic weight here, a feeling of vastness and confinement all at once. The beat hits with the grim finality of a heavy vault door swinging shut, trapping you inside the...