Silja Rós sends us “Letters from my past,” and it’s as if one has been handed a velvet pouch of smoothed sea glass, each piece a shard of memory polished by time. Listening feels like sorting through them, the Icelandic musician’s neo-soul and pop songwriting unfurling narratives from what must be deeply personal old diaries. There’s an intimacy here akin to deciphering faded ink...

On their sweeping new single “In the Silence of the Hills,” transatlantic duo Moon and Aries retreat from metropolitan chaos into an austere, windswept sanctuary. Serving as the fourth preview of their upcoming EP, “Prairie Souls,” the track trades modern sensory overstimulation for a deep, deliberate pause. https://open.spotify.com/track/3NCY5OjqH7Q0OSXECxUkEJ?si=NA0BlDoITLad7V9J0COvdw Collaborating across continents between Kelowna, Canada, and Cologne, Germany, singer-songwriter and lyricist Jordana Moon and composer-producer Tom Aries...