There is a strangely magnetic pull to Paper Mountains’ released debut album, "An Olive Tree and a Warm Breeze." Toby Lloyd, the music producer, songwriter, and frontman steering this solo project, has stepped away from the background of crafting sounds for others to finally map out his own mind. Leaning into the soul and folk-pop sensibilities of Iron and Wine and Sam Cooke, Lloyd...

DJ Aquana confronts grief with a pounding, club-ready surrender on his latest release, "Piece Of My Heart". The Netherlands-based electronic producer reimagines a classic by the ’90s group Intermission the precise song to which he proposed to his late wife, who passed away from cancer in 2017. What results is an intricate Slap House eulogy drenched in euphoric Eurodance nostalgia. https://open.spotify.com/track/3eveJIKzLY6ILgtZcHIoJo?si=oMNkcj6ARSyzGz3L4bVthQ Aquana approaches his production with...