Just before the piano plays the first note of "Dead End," the air in the room drops. You can feel it in your wrists first. We've all experienced that feeling; the silence is thin, buzzing in your ears, while your mind runs through a thousand thoughts, but your body is done.

There is a brief moment, before all of the voices begin to settle down into your chest and all of the music starts playing, that you feel as if you're losing your breath.

When ENAVE walks into a room, ENAVE comes to exist in the room. When there is static flowing under concrete it’s the same feeling. A drunken night having beer and then hearing parts of what you did not know the night actually were.

Lola Wild enters a room much like one of her songs enters the chest—hesitantly at first, and then quickly scintillates to sharpness, like the sound of static crackling across an old radio.

Before a storm, there is an eerie stillness in the air, that strange hush that takes over after the atmosphere thickens and even static seems alive. Rahmatou is familiar with that silence.

There’s something cinematic about Aleksandra “Allie” Picariello — not just because she studied Film Scoring at Berklee, but because her music feels scored.

TaniA Kyllikki’s new single, “I Promise I’ll Wait For You,” carries an undeniable hum of electricity. Not the sort of crackle you get on pop radio — something quieter, and more human.