Some songs are protests. Others are warnings. But a rare few are something else entirely: they are stories that transport you to another place, another time, another possible future. Ted Stanley’s “Shoreline” is one of those songs. It’s a piece of music that feels less like a song and more like a modern myth, a folktale carried softly across a rising tide. It’s a story...

Dalma’s new single, “Dance of Life,” arrived in my mental airspace much like discovering a pressed flower between the pages of a dense philosophical treatise – an unexpected, organic whisper of the profound. This is a tune that ponders the relentless spooling of time, that very human yearning to either clutch moments tight until our knuckles are white, or perhaps, to gently nudge the...