Jon Gold’s new single, "Lullaby for a Dream," is an act of gorgeous disorientation. You see the name—a pianist rooted in the intricate soils of jazz—and you prepare for one thing, but what arrives is a mist-laden skiff drifting from an entirely different shore. Gold, a Delaware musician, has composed a piece of British-Gaelic folk, and the cognitive dissonance is half the immediate magic....

The New York City violinist and singer-songwriter Nevler packs Sequoia, Unfair, Sunshine, and Velvet with moonlit drama, bedroom closeness, and situationship fallout "A Handful Of Moons". Press play and the room changes size. "A Handful Of Moons" may only run for about thirteen and a half minutes, but Nevler knows how to make a short EP feel packed with messy texts, late trains, soft light,...