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...

The new EP "Live at the Outlier Inn" by Shane Rennison who is an American born singer-songwriter with roots from upstate New York in the middle of the Catskills. He rejuvenates his vigour in the indie rocks and contemporary pop genres with this. The recording of this ep took place at Outlier Inn Studio in Mountaindale, New York, and was the biggest change in his...