Inal Bilsel, "Once Upon a Cloudtop Meadow". Honestly, the title alone conjures... well, precisely what the music delivers. It's an album that sounds like the background music for a Studio Ghibli film that doesn't exist yet, but absolutely should. Have you ever seen a cat yawn so widely it looks like it's trying to swallow the sun? That level of surprising delight – that's...

Silja Rós sends us “Letters from my past,” and it’s as if one has been handed a velvet pouch of smoothed sea glass, each piece a shard of memory polished by time. Listening feels like sorting through them, the Icelandic musician’s neo-soul and pop songwriting unfurling narratives from what must be deeply personal old diaries. There’s an intimacy here akin to deciphering faded ink...