When I pressed play on the latest release from Shelita, titled "Sailors", I wasn't expecting the floor to drop out from under me. You see, "pop" is often a safe word, a designation for the palatable. But this? This is something else entirely. It’s as if someone took a tender ballad and threw it into a particle accelerator to see what sub-atomic emotions would...

The indie pop artist delivers a seven-track album that feels exactly like the emotional whiplash of your twenties You know that feeling when you are walking home late at night, the streetlights are flickering, and your brain is cycling through every mistake you have ever made, only to suddenly feel completely invincible? That is exactly the energy Lana Crow captures on her third studio album. "In...