Leïla is a singer, songwriter, and composer who hails from Canada and France and now resides in Paris. Leïla is now making a powerful return with two new songs, "Histoire D'amour" and "Masquerade of Paradise" in which we will hear a new, more mature, more confirmed version of the singer. Her one-of-a-kind approach weaves both poetic skill and more modern sounds, including elements of pop and...

Adam Brice's "Never Is Too Late" landed on my desk – or, rather, materialized in my digital ether – and I've been wrestling with its echoes ever since. It's a curious beast, this album. Part rock anthem, part campfire confessional, with a splash of country twang that somehow doesn't feel out of place, which has themes running circles like wild horses, settling down around...