Antidote is home to the best new alternative music in the UK and beyond—a celebration of independence, innovation, and artists who don’t just push boundaries but reduce them to rubble. Erin LeCount leads the playlist this week with her haunting anthem “MACHINE GHOST.” “The idea was to make a track that sounds like a machine stuttering and slowly breaking down, whirring and choking. I wanted a coldness to the song,” the English singer-songwriter tells Apple Music. “It was inspired by the phrase ‘ghost in the machine,’ like there’s a human trapped inside the song itself, trying to articulate something and shutting down. The song is largely made of my voice, chopped up and replayed as instruments. I write a lot about myself as a machine, this sort of mechanical way I can work as a person, very analytical and rigid.” The sound reflects themes of dissociation and feeling disconnected, but LeCount has noticed it’s brought her even closer to her fans. “The response caught me off guard,” she says. “I’ve found it really beautiful and gratifying the amount of people that have connected with a song I wrote about feeling so disconnected from myself and everything around me.” Like all the artists featured, Antidote is always evolving—so keep checking back, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.