DJ Aquana confronts grief with a pounding, club-ready surrender on his latest release, "Piece Of My Heart". The Netherlands-based electronic producer reimagines a classic by the ’90s group Intermission the precise song to which he proposed to his late wife, who passed away from cancer in 2017. What results is an intricate Slap House eulogy drenched in euphoric Eurodance nostalgia. https://open.spotify.com/track/3eveJIKzLY6ILgtZcHIoJo?si=oMNkcj6ARSyzGz3L4bVthQ Aquana approaches his production with...

Some doors do not close with a slam. They remain half-open, daring a person to walk back through them after the room behind them has grown small and airless. The past can be persuasive that way. It offers familiar furniture, old names, a version of comfort that asks too much in return. "Backwards, Baby," the latest single from Caitlin Kent-Halliday, begins from that human pressure...