Five new releases about attachment, change, uncertainty and the messy space in between. Some songs are about knowing exactly where you stand. Others are much more interested in what happens when you don't. This week's On This Track: Weekend Listening 12 moves through that uncertainty in very different ways. Ra Ra Viper's new album "Ra Ra" captures the feeling of moving forward while trying to hold onto the people and places that shaped you, while personalheartbreaker and Some

Five new discoveries looking at anxiety, burnout, intimacy, political awareness and the strange ways music helps us make sense of the world around us. Music does not always have to be explicitly political to tell us something about the time we're living in. Sometimes it is there in a song about a relationship, in the exhaustion of touring, or in the feeling that the world outside has become too much to process. This week's On This Track: Midweek Listening 9 brings together fi

Three songs that turn vulnerability, self-doubt and the fight for self-preservation into different forms of sound. This week’s Three Track Week Signals 15 moves between raw hardcore, futuristic post-punk and cinematic indie. Soul Glo turn vulnerability and Black identity into a physical release on “February Theory”, M(h)aol confront the contradictions of self-acceptance on “Scam Manifesto”, while CA in LA explore the quiet struggle of self-preservation with “Waking Up”. Soul

Five new discoveries moving between post-punk, chamber pop, dark alt-pop, electronic indie and melodic punk. Some songs arrive with a lot going on around them. A new album, a story, a video, a whole world of references. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 8 five picks all have that, but the songs themselves are what kept pulling me back. American Motors look at a world that feels increasingly out of date, Loren Berí turns the idea of being in the background into somet

Three songs that find their own balance between emotion, energy and atmosphere. This week’s Three Track Week 32 moves between atmospheric Pop/R&B, driving ’70s-inspired rock and calm, expansive shoegaze. Karim Panzetta brings emotional restraint to “Not Made for Loving You”, Kurt Baker turns up the volume with “Wonder Woman”, while DIIV build a layered soundscape around the soft vocals and distorted guitars of “Kid”. Karim Panzetta - “Not Made for Loving You” “Not Made for Lo

Five new releases moving through love, heartbreak, experimentation, anger and complicated attachment. This week’s On This Track Weekend Listening 11 selection moves between indie rock, country, experimental pop, goth-leaning psych-rock and indie pop. The five songs all deal with emotions that are difficult to put into simple terms - from the distance between existing and feeling to the messier sides of love, self-doubt and anger. Armlock - “Half Time” Armlock by Bridgette Win