The French actress and singer Clara Quilichini flips the script on a breakup with a confessional pop single that thrives on sarcastic self-reflection. Some tracks hit you with a wave of sadness, but others hit you with the uncomfortable truth that you might actually be the problem. That sudden, sinking realization that you have morphed into the exact person who broke your heart is a...

Shawn Brown’s EP, "Into the Furious Light," doesn’t slip quietly into the stream of modern indie-folk releases; it instead cups its hands around your soul like you’re a candle in danger of flickering out. The Portland troubadour crafts songs that feel like fragments of conversations—maybe ones you walked in on too late or letters unsent to someone dear but no longer near. You’re never...