Listening to the new release from Glass Cabin, the album "Emmylou", feels like finding a box of letters you were never meant to read, tucked away in the back of a closet in a rental house. There is an immediate sense of intrusion, but you stay because the story is too compelling to leave. Jess Brown and David Flint have crafted something here that...

To understand a song like “Over And Over,” you first have to understand the road it travelled to get here. This is not a track that sprang fully formed from a young artist’s ambition. It’s a gnarled, weathered thing, carrying the dust of a long and winding path. The artist, Block, is a name that echoes from the raucous, DIY-spirited New York anti-folk scene of...