There’s a strange comfort in calling your personal disaster a fairytale, and Jeremy Ryan’s new single, “My Fairytale,” lives entirely in that conflicted space. This isn't the storybook of our youth; it's the grim, dog-eared version one finds in a dusty attic, its moral hopelessly smudged. https://open.spotify.com/track/0qn6YtxVNcUmPZhjwxoCIb?si=ac355c4e77274635 Ryan sings of a rainbow devoid of its colors, an idea that for a moment made me think of...

Guess Pre's "Clarity." The name itself feels like a punchline missing its joke, or maybe the setup to a philosophical riddle I'm not equipped to solve. Gregory Stanton, the Wisconsin-based artist behind the moniker, has served up a nine-track album that's… well, it's trying to be a lot of things, and surprisingly, mostly succeeding. https://open.spotify.com/album/2hV27eRxEJp08kML02uRW1 This isn't background music for folding laundry. It's more like the...