The New York City violinist and singer-songwriter Nevler packs Sequoia, Unfair, Sunshine, and Velvet with moonlit drama, bedroom closeness, and situationship fallout "A Handful Of Moons". Press play and the room changes size. "A Handful Of Moons" may only run for about thirteen and a half minutes, but Nevler knows how to make a short EP feel packed with messy texts, late trains, soft light,...

Caitlin Mae's single "House Sitting" slid into earshot less like a shiny Nashville calling card and more like finding a faded letter tucked inside a secondhand book. It’s labelled country, and the soft rock structure gives it shape, but the atmosphere? That’s pure, unadulterated heartache, distilled. Mae possesses one of those voices – technically brilliant, sure, but more importantly, emotionally transparent. You hear the...