You know that heavy feeling right before a thunderstorm hits? The air is completely still, but you can feel the electricity building up. That is exactly what Bailey Grey's new single, "Give Me A Break," feels like from the very first second. The New Jersey native has dropped something completely unexpected, trading her usual indie pop sound for an experimental track that hits hard. It...

Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...