Dark alternative currents run deep: I Ya Toyah delivers a hard-edged industrial statement that turns the mirror on modern humanity — and doesn't look away — before returning with Apology, a confrontational anthem built on crushing riffs and unexpected piano elegance that dares to ask: what happens when pain transforms into entitlement? Montreal's The City Gates conjure nocturnal post-punk atmospherics on Chimera — brooding rhythms meeting shimmering walls of shoegaze sound — while The Sentimental Tourists channel the spirit of Into Paradise and Whipping Boy with monster post-punk guitar energy. Jonathan Hadley navigates CPTSD with raw emotional honesty — "there is no villain here, just damages" — and The Boy With The Greyhound Tattoo celebrates thirty years of "utterly charming" indie-pop with a definitive compilation spanning orchestral grandeur to noisy guitars.