On their expansive album "Solid Ground", Steve and Dolapo construct an audacious sanctuary out of pure, unvarnished hope. Together, Dolapo Oladejo and Steve Petrinko draw upon sixty years of shared choral discipline and vast multi-instrumental instincts, assembling a kaleidoscopic sound that refuses to settle into an easy category. They treat the modern pop spectrum as an expansive canvas where heavy burdens are acknowledged, dissected,...

Dylan Forshner's new EP, “Hopeless Optimism,” presents itself not so much as a collection of songs but as a series of candid diary entries set to intricately picked acoustic strings. This five-song journey from the Welland, Canada artist begins in a place of palpable internal wrestling, where the lyrics – and Forshner’s delivery – map out the grim territories of being overwhelmed, using substances...