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Cameron Cries Out Loud “Love Me Like Your Ex”

A former lover can remain present long after they have left the room, not as a person but as an unwelcome measure. They appear in...

Joe Caruso Puts Absence In The Light On “Waiting On The Wind”

Vacant rooms have their own weather. After a child departs for college, the family home has altered but the next reunion is still only...

Roger K Refuses Childhood Weight On “Please Don’t Put It on Me”

A society can spend years debating an adult’s final act and still miss the repeated pressures that taught a child to fear their own...

Weekend Millionaires Chase The High On “Dopamine”

An appetite can arrive dressed as a good night out: a quick lift, a bold invitation, a body moving before the mind has named...

Joely Makes A Fleeting Connection Feel Anything But “For A While”

A limited span of time can carry a great deal of life. “For a while” is the phrase people use when they are postponing...

Andrew Moore And Hooch Find Fellowship On A “Mountain”

A mountain can signal escape, endurance, distance, or the hard fact of having nowhere else to go. Andrew Moore and Hooch give that ambiguity...

Zora Kirin Makes Mortality Sound Beautiful On “The Bones Are Beautiful”

A fortieth birthday can invite reckoning, a count of plans delayed and rooms left unopened. Zora Kirin chooses another ritual. Her debut EP, "The Bones...

Brit Scoops Finds America’s Soft Spot On “American Cheese”

At the end of a long day, the smallest things can carry the heaviest charge: a plan that never happened, a drink taken a...

One Spring Afternoon Becomes “Beautiful Day” For Andy Smythe

Spring asks little except attention. A patch of light, an unhurried walk, the company of a person who makes time feel less mechanical. Andy Smythe’s...

Time Melts Away On Francy Planet’s “Brain Freeze”

Convenience stores are unofficial archives. Their names change and their shelves are rearranged, yet a cold drink can still carry an adult back to...

Analiese Revisits The Messy Emotions of High School On “Miss Melancholy”

A yearbook preserves the grin, the outfit, the posed certainty. It rarely records the argument in the car park, the fear of being chosen...

LaCosta Tucker Cuts Straight to the Bone with “It Matters to Me”

LaCosta Tucker, the veteran 1970s country trailblazer who logged 14 singles on the charts and dropped five albums during her initial run, is opening...

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