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The Fraying Edges: Rusty Reid’s “Attitude Change”

The title of Rusty Reid’s new single, "Attitude Change," has the sterile ring of a corporate warning, which makes the desperate, heart-on-the-floor plea within it all the more jarring. This is the sound of the final straw, a melodic ultimatum delivered while someone else in the room is looking at the baby, or the TV, or anywhere but at the person whose love is...

“Angel Gabriel’s Light”: Karen Salicath Jamali’s Sound of Hope.

Most music that arrives with the label “meditative” feels like an instruction to relax—a gentle but firm command. Karen Salicath Jamali’s “Angel Gabriel’s Light,” however, doesn’t instruct; it simply arrives. Listening to this single for the first time is like walking into a room to find the light has changed color, subtly and without explanation. You don’t question how it happened. You just stand...

Baylee Dowling’s “Not Turning Back”: When Life’s Softness Hits Hardest

It’s strange to think about silence as a form of noise, isn’t it? The kind that fills a room after you've heard something so...