“Described by one youtube connoisseur as CIA torture music, but I'm pretty sure they're wrong.”
Synths up, defenses down: NYC duo The Mystic Underground turns up the tempo and ferocity on We Could Be Fugitives — a dance-floor-destined clarion call to "take your lover by the hand and run away from your inhibitions." The heavily orchestrated Song for a Gorgeous Blonde peers into distant futures with equal hopefulness and trepidation. Montreal's Glass Dolls offers bedroom pop-tinged post-punk meditations on love, loss, and grief, while Kernfamilie II merges retro-futurist synth soundscapes with AI-generated dystopian caution. Pete Rafle, Songsmith rounds things out with full-band charm — including the miracle of amphibian reproduction via "Frog Sex Party."