Listening to Libby Ember’s single “Alibi” is a study in strange emotional temperatures. The sound is a down-tempo, sun-dusted blanket of soft guitars and gentle synth pads, the kind of arrangement you’d put on to feel safe. But the feeling it leaves behind is a deep, architectural cold, the kind you find in the shadowed corners of an old stone church long after the...

Megapenny Music makes a radiant entrance with the single “Spaces Between,” offering an expansive look at the accidental poetry of everyday devotion. Built on the creative partnership between founder Al Young a classically trained pianist and custom synthesizer designer returning after a 40-year studio hiatus and a featured French lead vocalist Delphine Savatte, the track trades manufactured melodrama for something observant and patient. Conventional...