Some doors do not close with a slam. They remain half-open, daring a person to walk back through them after the room behind them has grown small and airless. The past can be persuasive that way. It offers familiar furniture, old names, a version of comfort that asks too much in return. "Backwards, Baby," the latest single from Caitlin Kent-Halliday, begins from that human pressure...

ReetoxA fundamentally disrupts our modern, fragmented listening habits with the release of "Soliloquy", an epic double album that essentially demands to be swallowed whole. After thirty years of stockpiling thoughts, melodies, and regrets, frontman Jason McKee (operating as lead singer, music composer, and lyric writer) finally lets the dam burst. Birthed from pandemic isolation, this cinematic indie-rock sprawl pulls massive classical elements specifically a...