Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...

With Eye of TJ dropping "Letting Go of You (Acoustic)", I found myself staring at a crack in my ceiling, contemplating how the ghost of a scream can be heavier than the scream itself. You know that specific, ringing emptiness that fills a room after a nine-year war finally ends? That’s where this track lives. It sits in the debris. https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfEdpqzJNBFcmDaOwnJL3?si=5109fb7bcd564625 The project describes this release...