Shawn Brown’s EP, "Into the Furious Light," doesn’t slip quietly into the stream of modern indie-folk releases; it instead cups its hands around your soul like you’re a candle in danger of flickering out. The Portland troubadour crafts songs that feel like fragments of conversations—maybe ones you walked in on too late or letters unsent to someone dear but no longer near. You’re never...

Megapenny Music, the brainchild of a musician with roots tangled in both classical piano and the electric pulse of synthesizers, returns with "Grains of Sand." After designing synths and taking a breather, the musical entity gifts us a song after coming back to producing. https://open.spotify.com/album/2gmgaulseKK86ROPyhbpE2?si=YcEHE6hOQZucajSuVu_Svw "Grains of Sand" plunges headfirst into a bubbling cauldron of Euro-pop, but it’s the message that truly sprawls out. The description...