There is a strangely magnetic pull to Paper Mountains’ released debut album, "An Olive Tree and a Warm Breeze." Toby Lloyd, the music producer, songwriter, and frontman steering this solo project, has stepped away from the background of crafting sounds for others to finally map out his own mind. Leaning into the soul and folk-pop sensibilities of Iron and Wine and Sam Cooke, Lloyd...

Stephen H. Cumberbatch, also known as C’batch, has released the "Next Time (I Won’t Be Falling)" EP, an obsessively multifaceted autopsy of romantic relapse. Reimagining the exact same song across four distinct genres is a fascinating choice. Frankly, it perfectly mirrors the cyclical trap his lyrics describe: swearing off that one fiercely magnetic person, only to slide helplessly right back into their orbit. We...