The moment the jaunty guitar kicks in on John Smyths’ new single, "Now I'm Wiser", you feel a familiar, comfortable warmth. It’s the sound of a good chair in a bar where the floor is sticky with spilled truths. And then the story starts, a classic yarn of a hard-living past yielding to a peaceful present. Smyths, a Dutch ex-metalhead singing country out of...

The indie pop artist delivers a seven-track album that feels exactly like the emotional whiplash of your twenties You know that feeling when you are walking home late at night, the streetlights are flickering, and your brain is cycling through every mistake you have ever made, only to suddenly feel completely invincible? That is exactly the energy Lana Crow captures on her third studio album. "In...