A record can move fast without chasing the obvious route. “EMA”, Sienná’s nine-track experimental electronic album, begins from that possibility. The Kyoto-born, Oslo-based artist builds its premise around ema, the Japanese tool used to communicate directly with the divine. From there, she turns images and impressions gathered in nature into songs. It is a high-concept frame, but it lands because the concept asks a practical question:...

With Eye of TJ dropping "Letting Go of You (Acoustic)", I found myself staring at a crack in my ceiling, contemplating how the ghost of a scream can be heavier than the scream itself. You know that specific, ringing emptiness that fills a room after a nine-year war finally ends? That’s where this track lives. It sits in the debris. https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfEdpqzJNBFcmDaOwnJL3?si=5109fb7bcd564625 The project describes this release...