She is a British singer-songwriter who is making a name for herself in the music scene right now. Equally, Ellie Byers has a way of connecting with the heartbroken and newly infatuated alike. https://soundcloud.com/ellieebyers/back-around-ft-syon-single/s-CzVhM15O8iK It is Ellie's goal that her music will be a source of solace and atonement for those who have experienced the beauty and agony of love. She has a stunning voice that effortlessly...

Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...