Banbury-based multi-instrumentalist Music by Jeremy steps into the open air on "Scenes from a Well Worn Path (Side Three)", the third instalment of an ambitious 24-track, four-part double album. After spending his first two volumes examining insular, private spaces, the solo songwriter directs his gaze toward the town square. Working from a home studio with an acoustic guitar, expressive fretless bass lines, and custom...

Patrick Hynes’ new single, "Baby’s High Again," doesn't so much arrive as materialize, like a half-remembered scent of bourbon and regret clinging to a velvet curtain. This “Midnight Country” he’s cultivating, it’s less dusty plains, more the blue, flickering light of a motel television at 3 AM, illuminating a room where decisions have been made, then unmade, then made again. Hynes, a Scot with...