You know that exact moment when your phone lights up at 2 AM and you know you should ignore it, but you pick it up anyway? That is the exact feeling LEEDY has bottled up in her new single. "Haunted" does not waste time pretending to be a song about making good choices. It grabs you immediately with a vibe that feels like a late...

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...