Open Horizon Records has returned with "Letting Go," a hyper-charged surge of emo-pop that turns romantic limbo into pure cathartic adrenaline. What began in Lancaster back in 2010 as an intimate poetry writing project has morphed into a solo venture where raw, lived experience meets AI-assisted vocals and instrumentation. The resulting collision is fascinatingly urgent. https://open.spotify.com/track/2I8Ianiecd4x0ULiKbIPnF?si=3ESGNN70T4Ksy6liy7I82w The single tackles that agonizing purgatory of waiting for someone...

Some comeback albums arrive wearing a suit. Block’s "Love Crash" kicks the shoes off at the door, laughs at the mess, then starts telling the truth before anyone has found a chair. Released on Meridian, ECR Music Group, the album is Block’s sixth full-length and his first new record in 13 years. That gap matters, but the record does not beg for sympathy. It feels awake,...