Dylan Forshner's new EP, “Hopeless Optimism,” presents itself not so much as a collection of songs but as a series of candid diary entries set to intricately picked acoustic strings. This five-song journey from the Welland, Canada artist begins in a place of palpable internal wrestling, where the lyrics – and Forshner’s delivery – map out the grim territories of being overwhelmed, using substances...

Written by T. Brown captures a strange, beautiful contradiction on the new single, "The Way She Goes". T. Brown operates as a storyteller obsessed with how an underlying message survives when you twist the energy around it, and here, he drops a lesson in radical acceptance dead in the middle of the club. https://open.spotify.com/artist/73NZQtUd2aUs9g07O6pV3g?si=wqYDIpj6QQ-nmO9DGVe-8g The track rides heavily on a high-pitched, cyclical R&B vocal loop that...