The latest track from Martha Skye Murphy is a dramatic slice of avant-Pop. ‘Dogs’ is her first release since 2021’s ‘Concrete’, and might be one of her most mind-bending compositions yet. Her voice is processed uniquely from the start as it wails and whispers over distant piano and slow, evolving layers of textural sound. Over the course of the next seven minutes, her moving lyrics ebb and flow over these ethereal found-sound samples and archive opera recordings into a bold climax. It’s an unnerving, yet strangely cathartic experience. In true artistic form, Martha Skye Murphy hasn’t left us just one music video, but two more than can be uncovered on her website, both designed to form alternate narratives and realities within the song. -Dan Peeke