There is a strangely magnetic pull to Paper Mountains’ released debut album, "An Olive Tree and a Warm Breeze." Toby Lloyd, the music producer, songwriter, and frontman steering this solo project, has stepped away from the background of crafting sounds for others to finally map out his own mind. Leaning into the soul and folk-pop sensibilities of Iron and Wine and Sam Cooke, Lloyd...

Lylantz guarantees you will not walk away from "Your God Is My Devil" feeling entirely okay. His self-produced tenth full-length album is an active, confrontational dive into the darkest corners of the human psyche. As the architect of a wildly fluid sound he dubs "Post-Modern Gothic," Lylantz crafts visceral art for his self-described "Black Swans" the outsiders, the iconoclasts, the perpetually misunderstood. https://open.spotify.com/album/4OyTHP0j5kqLgzkrH3Z0lN "Ante Meridiem" kicks open the door with suffocating...