“Hangin On” makes letting go feel like a workout for the hands. Julia Appleton’s new indie-folk single takes a familiar moment, packing up a place full of history, then refuses to tidy up the feelings around it. The song came from helping her boyfriend sell his childhood home. This is a release about memory, movement, and the bruising pause before a person admits that forward...

On "Mr. Know It All", the loudest person in the room may have the least to teach us. That thought gives Jack Raymond’s second album its bite. This Australian folk, roots and blues album review puts people at its centre. They carry family stories, dodge hard truths and live with choices that arrived before them. Raymond gives no heroic status to the title figure. Instead, he...