When I pressed play on the latest release from Shelita, titled "Sailors", I wasn't expecting the floor to drop out from under me. You see, "pop" is often a safe word, a designation for the palatable. But this? This is something else entirely. It’s as if someone took a tender ballad and threw it into a particle accelerator to see what sub-atomic emotions would...

With her debut album "Komorebi," UK-based composer, producer, and pianist Sylvie Natsume captures something entirely elusive: the chaotic, precise physics of shifting daylight. The title borrows the Japanese term for sunlight filtering through a canopy of leaves, an absolutely fitting metaphor for this nature-inspired, entirely instrumental excursion. https://open.spotify.com/album/2wcL4kspBNshakVWHCZNu5?si=3E_vexVHREaT8Kv9n-O0lA Designed to be digested as one continuous suite, the record ignores our modern urge to compartmentalize. Instead, Natsume...