I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...

Kayla Marie Pulver steps into the shadow of "Indigo Night" not to displace the original, but to repaint the walls of its cavernous structure with a distinctly feminine, haunting lacquer. Covering a track known for its princely emotiveness is a bold move like deciding to re-architect a Gothic cathedral but Pulver strips away the grandiosity in favor of something far more insidious and creeping. https://open.spotify.com/album/4EXgEIzOqcCQSpspEhPhzY?si=QR_97jSCTem-5XnSium9aA The...