Strumming the Strings of Reminiscence, Kendall Bowser Bares Her Heart on Her Latest EP, "Sober Truths". Melodic echoes of loss and longing have found a new voice in Kendall Bowser, a sensitive and introspective songwriter, who breathes life into the universal experience of yearning for "the one that got away" in her latest EP, "Sober Truths." With the lead single "Got Away," Bowser doesn't just expose...

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...