Eye of TJ, the Mobile, Alabama solo artist known as the digital soul of modern heartbreak, has shared a devastating lead single, "This Time". It serves as the primary preview of his forthcoming album, "Endless War", by dropping us headfirst into an emotional blast radius. https://open.spotify.com/track/0kKDFZZGDwnfOAuk6GIZMY?si=b82f44e6182e4ad2 There is a specific, agonizing point in a doomed relationship where you realize that acting as human superglue for someone...

Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...