Listening to Arnold J.’s new single, "Muddy Waters," isn't quite like anything else swirling around right now. It arrives with the gentle insistence of incoming tide, pulling you into its specific gravity. Arnold J., Ghanaian-born and now Canada-based, weaves a sound tagged as alt-country and folk, but those labels feel thin, like trying to contain smoke. There’s earthiness, sure, but his soulful vocal lines...

Cinematic composer and guitarist NOR.BE has shared his electrifying new instrumental single, “Once.” Arriving ahead of his forthcoming debut album, “A Dream Come True,” the track enlists the NOR.BE Collective his fluid roster of international collaborators to stage an ambitious collision of progressive rock, jazz fusion, and avant-garde orchestration. https://open.spotify.com/track/7BfbFMgQKu2oTXXHVMLman?si=TGTLWRmTSs2kqnDUOBYmvw The piece follows the volatile emotional topography of remembering someone. Rather than treating memory as an...