When Tim Camrose drops a track like "Break The Chains," you have to pause and rewire your expectations of grief. Here is a singer-songwriter from the Northwest of England who spent forty years as a surgeon and professor, operating on human bodies before returning to his roots to tend to emotional fractures. https://open.spotify.com/track/1OtSCD3BU8T5HS6JT2ZXQL?si=gXnTpjfrQiathydZk0GWzg This single wraps its heavy origins penned during a final trip to New...

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,...