Level 4 releases festive music just in time. Christmas With You is the group's first holiday album of original Christmas songs. Music was designed to be felt before it was heard, and their Christmas tune brings back warm memories you didn't actually expect. It has the emotional depth and authenticity of the golden age of rich, soulful albums from the first note. No pressure to...

Ava Valianti represents something increasingly rare in contemporary music: genuine precocity without artifice. This Massachusetts artist, who is only fifteen years old, handles general themes with a level of emotional depth that is shocking. She shows that youth can bring out the best in complicated human experiences, rather than hiding them. "Distant," her sixth single, functions as a sonic archaeology of friendship's dissolution. The track excavates layers...