"Eyes of Izzy" has the feel of a song that waited until the room got quiet enough to speak. Mark Moule, the Busselton-based singer-songwriter originally from Birmingham, brings forward an original single and the hook is instantly different. This is not a casual name-drop from history. It is a Mark Moule "Eyes of Izzy" single review about a track that takes Abraham "Izzy" Orloff, the...

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...