Sometimes the most honest music comes from the spaces between certainty and doubt. Blake Kelly knows this territory well. The Charlotte-based artist has spent his time moving between basketball courts, college classrooms, and recording studios, collecting experiences that fuel his latest EP, Guidance. "Left or Right" serves as the centrepiece of this four-track collection, and it arrives with the kind of laid-back confidence that suggests Kelly...

There is a precise sort of chaos within the architecture of Cries of Redemption and the new release "Abstract" that feels entirely purposeful, like a storm trapped inside a glass bottle. Ed Silva, the Savannah-based mastermind behind this project, isn’t merely writing songs; he seems to be conducting experiments on how much tension a melody can hold before it snaps. https://open.spotify.com/album/4jjLaAirbw3BMrPXXFvgSq?si=m44bJJwWROeEHVSVJqoZoQ Listening to tracks like "The...