Glass Cabin’s latest single, “I Don’t Know,” feels less like a song arriving and more like something found already playing in a dusty, roadside motel room you didn’t intend to stop at. Jess Brown and Dave Flint, the architects of this Nashville duo, have conjured a piece that sits squarely in their poetic intersection of country rock atmosphere and gothic Americana shadowplay. It's a...

Violet Love has offered up an EP titled "Destined to Fail," and it arrives less like a prediction and more like a pre-existing condition, a medical chart for a soul that’s been diagnosed with itself. The DIY recording quality doesn’t feel lo-fi for aesthetics; it feels necessary, like these songs could only have been born in a sealed-off room where the air was getting...