Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...

2mindsas1 confronts the absolute exhaustion of a stagnant relationship with their new single, "Where Do We Go From Here?". The London and South East England-based indie rock duo captures a very specific flavor of human frustration. It is that draining, endless loop where two people circle the exact same arguments until the words dissolve into pure noise. The track sits at a critical junction...