On their buoyant new single "Until Further Notice," Roses and Rain plot an exhilarating escape hatch out of daily monotony and toward the open coast. Drawing on their collective roots across London, Tokyo, and Nashville, Sarah Rose and Leila Reine construct a luminous piece of indie pop centered on radical self-preservation. https://open.spotify.com/album/20H9b0VIbxN25Nn5qXLFCu?si=J4Y97qdmSYe-jvIQudACRQ There is an odd, giddy euphoria that arrives the exact second you abandon an...

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...