Getting ghosted by someone you thought you were building a future with hits different. It is the frantic, exhausting mental gymnastics of trying to figure out what went wrong when the other person refused to leave a manual. You are left holding a bag of mixed emotions, bouncing between intense nostalgia and the kind of anger that makes you want to throw your phone into the...

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...