A singer, songwriter, and composer from Pittsburgh, United States with the name of Monti Korbelle has done something remarkable. He has released a remarkable album titled "The Absolute State of the Absolute State," which is a name of great significance. Korbelle borrows from the palette of artists like Tove Lo, Oklou, S10, MILYMA, James Blake and Lana Lubany to give contemporary music a new and...

One rarely encounters a title as forthright in its ambition as what Nikiré offers with "ETERNITY beneath the stars of God." This single from Tom Arild Junge’s philosophical project is not something you’d play while sorting the recycling; it demands, and subsequently creates, a specific kind of quiet. The Enya comparison is there, certainly—a female voice gliding over vast, ambient soundscapes—but the effect is...