Touch Girl Apple Blossom (vinyl release), A Mourning in Heaven, Proun, Kai Wilde

Celebrating a 7” vinyl release to follow up last year’s EP, Touch Girl Apple Blossom befits Hotel Vegas with hair-twirling jangle-pop that bounces guitar twinkle around bandleader Olivia Garner’s sugary vocal drone. Dreamy rockers Proun feed the lineup’s unofficial twee narrative, while Houston act A Mourning in Heaven flicks crushing, industrial slowcore into the mix. Teethe player Kai Wilde continues to darken the bill with his ambient weave of acoustic and electric flair. A perfect yin-yang of saccharine and bitter. – Laiken Neumann