Violet Love has offered up an EP titled "Destined to Fail," and it arrives less like a prediction and more like a pre-existing condition, a medical chart for a soul that’s been diagnosed with itself. The DIY recording quality doesn’t feel lo-fi for aesthetics; it feels necessary, like these songs could only have been born in a sealed-off room where the air was getting...

Far From Your Sun’s latest EP, "A Dream of Hell", demands that we stare directly into our own darkness to find a sliver of honest, jagged light. Operating out of Paris as a self-described "philosophy in motion," this project treats progressive rock as a multidisciplinary exorcism. They bypass the trap of empty technical showboating, instead channeling their inner chaos through sheer, unrelenting emotion. https://open.spotify.com/album/1dlrRDRCyvpZs0CutiuOA7?si=VdepTAjFRdG5HXsw9TXDXg The immersion...