Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...

Gary Mictian can be considered as one of the artists who are forging a path in the hyperpop area with his new single "I Can't Do This Anymore." This song is a predecessor of Mictian’s most popular debut album "Nosedive" which doesn’t include any of the conventional elements of electronic pop and at the same time evokes some fragments of dystopian science fiction and cinematic...