Pop music

Fresh pop dispatches: Elly Kace conjures The Seventh Gate, a tender and fierce admission of mysticism where strings, sound healing instruments, and ancestral whispers light the way toward the light. Modern Ideas brings Melbourne garage synth-pop with "plastic dreams, electric romance, and machines humming with human desire" — pure Depeche Mode and New Order DNA. Safiro debuts with Azure, the album they wish they'd heard growing up — a pop journey through first love, heartbreak, and hard-won meaning. Kindness Inc. weaves an electro folk spell about a love that betrays death, because "stories never die."