There is something deliciously conspiratorial about Hidden Shores and the release of the "Neon Silence" EP. I find myself picturing the artist wiping chalk dust off their hands after a day of teaching elementary schoolers, only to go home, dim the lights, and converse with algorithms. It’s not your typical moonlighting gig; while most are decompressing with reality TV, Hidden Shores is out there...

There are nights when a glance across a party seems to gain the weight of weather. A small look becomes evidence, evidence becomes a case, and the mind, pleased with its own bad carpentry, starts building rooms no one asked to enter. "Oh My God", the new single by Don Drapery from the forthcoming 2026 album "Something Worth Repeating", lives inside that jump from minor...