It’s a rare and bewildering thrill to encounter something as organically bizarre and entirely transportive as Koradan’s newest album, "Around the World...Music". The Italian duo Alex Baccari and Marzia Di Cicco are dedicated acoustic alchemists. They build the very tools they play. Through their patented centerpiece, the "Koritas," they have physically fused materials harvested from five different continents into a single resonating chamber. You...

Scottish-Portuguese indie duo Forgotten Garden navigates the crushing gravity of regret on their latest single, "Rain." Exploring the bitter, suffocating aftermath of a relationship breakdown, the track zeroes in on a very specific kind of heartbreak: the perspective of a man who confidently walks away believing he will be perfectly fine, only to step squarely into a torrential downpour of his own inescapable grief. https://open.spotify.com/track/6Y2XNfQJwrgUw3nOE1dwq2?si=6c2893048fc94aeb Committed...