There's an intimacy to the new FREE/MAN release, "The Reconnection EP," that borders on a welcome invasion of personal space. It is the sonic equivalent of someone leaning in, not to share a secret, but to create the silence where your own might finally surface. Charlie Freeman hasn't built a grand cathedral of sound here; he's simply furnished a quiet room with stark, necessary...

The new EP "Live at the Outlier Inn" by Shane Rennison who is an American born singer-songwriter with roots from upstate New York in the middle of the Catskills. He rejuvenates his vigour in the indie rocks and contemporary pop genres with this. The recording of this ep took place at Outlier Inn Studio in Mountaindale, New York, and was the biggest change in his...