ErickOscar approaches modern alienation with an unexpected weapon on his expansive album, "I Choose Love": sheer, unabashed neighborliness. The Panamanian-born, U.S.-based songwriter carries over thirty-five years of acoustic guitar fretwork under his fingers, yet his creative engine hums at a curious contemporary crossroads. Oscar writes his own bilingual lyrics and establishes his acoustic strumming foundations before collaborating with AI-assisted music production tools to arrange...

One rarely encounters a title as forthright in its ambition as what Nikiré offers with "ETERNITY beneath the stars of God." This single from Tom Arild Junge’s philosophical project is not something you’d play while sorting the recycling; it demands, and subsequently creates, a specific kind of quiet. The Enya comparison is there, certainly—a female voice gliding over vast, ambient soundscapes—but the effect is...