Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...

Open Horizon Records has returned with "Letting Go," a hyper-charged surge of emo-pop that turns romantic limbo into pure cathartic adrenaline. What began in Lancaster back in 2010 as an intimate poetry writing project has morphed into a solo venture where raw, lived experience meets AI-assisted vocals and instrumentation. The resulting collision is fascinatingly urgent. https://open.spotify.com/track/2I8Ianiecd4x0ULiKbIPnF?si=3ESGNN70T4Ksy6liy7I82w The single tackles that agonizing purgatory of waiting for someone...