The Austin-based songwriter Alex Winters turns the terrifying act of emotional surrender into a towering alt-rock confession. There is a specific kind of silence that occupies a room right before a heavy truth is spoken aloud. It is thick, suffocating, and entirely self-imposed. We build fortresses out of our past traumas, stacking bricks of deflection and mortar of avoidance to guarantee nothing can ever hurt us...

Listening to the new release from Glass Cabin, the album "Emmylou", feels like finding a box of letters you were never meant to read, tucked away in the back of a closet in a rental house. There is an immediate sense of intrusion, but you stay because the story is too compelling to leave. Jess Brown and David Flint have crafted something here that...