With his sprawling album "Live, Learn, and Love Without Regets", Panamanian-born, longtime U.S. songwriter ErickOscar offers a candid, stylistically unruly chronicle of a life examined in full color. A bilingual acoustic guitarist and hands-on producer, he approaches music less like an industry strategist and more like a backyard philosopher assembling a family scrapbook from whatever materials happen to be within reach. https://open.spotify.com/album/77nWuQDCVqX4bJwqYf1yqs?si=k-3PZ7ZVRYuzhC4nj8uahg The collection refuses to...

Adam Brice's "Never Is Too Late" landed on my desk – or, rather, materialized in my digital ether – and I've been wrestling with its echoes ever since. It's a curious beast, this album. Part rock anthem, part campfire confessional, with a splash of country twang that somehow doesn't feel out of place, which has themes running circles like wild horses, settling down around...