There is a specific, agonizing silence that occurs right after you lay your heart completely bare. It is the vacuum of space before the other person responds. Swedish pop artist Sebastian Rydgren steps directly into that terrifying void with his new single, "Talk To Me". He does not offer a comfortable resolution. Instead, he forces the listener to sit in the unbearable tension of a...

Forrest Hill’s "Flow Like a River" washes in, not as a gentle meander, but more like that quiet, insistent trickling that eventually, if you listen closely, carves new landscapes in the mind. This single, the apparent linchpin for his upcoming album "Beyond the Veil," feels like a hushed conversation you didn’t realize you were desperately eavesdropping on, perhaps with your own frayed inner self...