Right, so, Reinis Jaunais. Latvian, guitar-slinger, world-wanderer… makes sense that his new album, "Nest," feels like opening a suitcase overflowing with… things. Not junk, mind you. More like… carefully curated curiosities. Eleven songs, eleven postcards from somewhere just beyond the familiar. https://open.spotify.com/album/5mbemTIWhAYV7fHe5V9562 It's world music, yes, but not in the dusty, anthropological sense. Think more… progressive fusion. A touch of the acoustic guitar played in that...

There is a dizzying, tarot-deck logic running through DreamGood’s sprawling concept album, "Paris Novella". Formed in 2009, the cinematic art-pop trio Mitchell Sloan, Joshua Heath, and Glenn Heath have long inhabited the borderlands between dancefloors and private dream states. Here, they dive straight into the theater of divination, psychic static, and existential reckoning. The record behaves like a handful of eccentric confessions pulled at...