When confrontation meets collapse: I Ya Toyah's Apology hits with crushing riffs and hypnotic grooves, blurring justified pain and dangerous entitlement, while FEELINGS cuts through curated noise with biting industrial force. Montreal's The City Gates' Chimera unfolds like a nocturnal landscape of brooding post-punk urgency and shimmering shoegaze walls — "an album you can't escape from." Coma Beach's Passion/Bliss closes their Beckett-fueled EP triptych as a fever dream caught between punk abrasion and post-punk hallucination, while A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending lurches between fever-dream urgency and razor-edged clarity. som som's Lift offers lo-fi relief with moody verses exploding into noise-pop euphoria, and Poland's Listy brings folk-tinged noise and alternative grit to the mix.