Silja Rós sends us “Letters from my past,” and it’s as if one has been handed a velvet pouch of smoothed sea glass, each piece a shard of memory polished by time. Listening feels like sorting through them, the Icelandic musician’s neo-soul and pop songwriting unfurling narratives from what must be deeply personal old diaries. There’s an intimacy here akin to deciphering faded ink...

When the Los Angeles teen trio LED dropped their new single "YOUR PERFECT", I was violently thrown back into the absolute, suffocating gravity of toxic high school heartbreak. https://open.spotify.com/track/0rJAWp3Dgyob2Ao0kIbVw3?si=ac87993782c34a0a Edie Yvonne, Layne Olivia, and Lockett Pentz, kids who initially bumped into each other at a film camp have seemingly decided to skip cinematic pursuits in favor of crafting sheer, fuzzy vengeance. They construct the melody over...