Dutch-born multi-instrumentalist Harry Kappen confronts the water's brutal indifference on his new single "Distant Shore", the emotional anchor of his latest full-length album, "After the Crossing". Kappen handles everything you hear on the track writing, performing, and producing. He’s a veteran music therapist who spent decades in youth care, and he clearly carries that observant, deeply empathetic gaze into his own atmospheric art-rock. https://open.spotify.com/track/0iosbAodNvyBdnwClZDFG0?si=76a854348bef47cf His recent...

The Swedish sextet Villa Rivercat turns hesitation, healing, and synth-lit folk rock into a single built for repeat plays. Some songs feel like the exact second before you send the text you have typed three times and deleted twice. 'Woodchopper', the new single from Villa Rivercat, lives in that nervous little gap. It is about choice, but it does not treat choice like a neat...