Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...

WHITEFIRE reaches through the heavy silence of the Texas plains with "Until I See You (Pt.1)", a single that functions like a compass needle spinning wildly in a magnetic storm. It is a work forged in the specific, agonizing fires of loss the passing of the artist's son, Elijah and it demands your attention not through force, but through a terrifyingly honest vulnerability. https://open.spotify.com/track/27uQqDCCvJyaFcq6adRXpY?si=a186b28242b847da The track...