Violet Love has offered up an EP titled "Destined to Fail," and it arrives less like a prediction and more like a pre-existing condition, a medical chart for a soul that’s been diagnosed with itself. The DIY recording quality doesn’t feel lo-fi for aesthetics; it feels necessary, like these songs could only have been born in a sealed-off room where the air was getting...

Listening to the new release from Glass Cabin, the album "Emmylou", feels like finding a box of letters you were never meant to read, tucked away in the back of a closet in a rental house. There is an immediate sense of intrusion, but you stay because the story is too compelling to leave. Jess Brown and David Flint have crafted something here that...