Phidippus’ "Prazosin," the album, is a strange little thing. Not like finding a sock in the dryer that never had a match, but more like finding a tiny, perfectly formed city inside an acorn. It's all electronic pulses and hums, built by Eric Salazar, with what feels like very specific, and also wonderfully messy, intention. Jeff Riteman and Alice Indiana pop in as guests,...

On their expansive album "Solid Ground", Steve and Dolapo construct an audacious sanctuary out of pure, unvarnished hope. Together, Dolapo Oladejo and Steve Petrinko draw upon sixty years of shared choral discipline and vast multi-instrumental instincts, assembling a kaleidoscopic sound that refuses to settle into an easy category. They treat the modern pop spectrum as an expansive canvas where heavy burdens are acknowledged, dissected,...