Judy Pearson turns post-romance grief inside out on her cutting new EP, "Diary of A Heartbreak (Chapter Two)". The London-based songwriter has always traded in stripped-back, intimate confessions, but here the diary entries carry a distinct razor edge. Heartbreak is rarely neat; it is petty, funny, exhausting, and eventually liberating. Pearson captures that exact, twitchy threshold where mourning an ex finally curdles into amusement...

Some songs feel like opening a message you were never meant to read. Agnes Fred's 'After Death' has that private charge, the kind that makes you lower the volume even when you are alone. It is small, strange, and heavy in a way that sneaks up on you. No fireworks. No dramatic chest beating. The track simply appears, pale and close, then leaves a mark...