Before listening to a single note of Suris’ new album, “Pertinax”, I spent a few minutes just looking at the word. Pertinax. It has the distinct ring of a Stoic philosopher’s last defiant utterance or maybe a type of beetle known for its unusually stubborn shell. What a curious flag to fly for a collection of songs in an age of fleeting distraction. But...

Ramblerman’s new single "Midday Melancholy" doesn’t crash into your day; it seeps in, like the specific quality of light that pools on the floor when you've decided to stay inside. It’s here that Stephen Dobson tunes into a frequency of beautiful, stubborn inertia, a sound that feels both warm as a sunbeam and heavy as the dust motes dancing in it. The song understands...