A record can move fast without chasing the obvious route. “EMA”, Sienná’s nine-track experimental electronic album, begins from that possibility. The Kyoto-born, Oslo-based artist builds its premise around ema, the Japanese tool used to communicate directly with the divine. From there, she turns images and impressions gathered in nature into songs. It is a high-concept frame, but it lands because the concept asks a practical question:...

The Sonic Travelers have unveiled “A Heart’s A Terrible Thing To Waste”, a quietly devastating single that treats romantic collapse not with theatrics, but with hard-earned grace. Longtime collaborators George Aiello and John Ingram, whose musical partnership traces back to the 1970s, bring decades of seasoned songwriting to this adult contemporary and soft rock track, sidestepping cheap melodrama in favor of unsparing honesty. https://open.spotify.com/track/0tH2enMCxU2Th9FaypS99Q?si=6cb84c85a62f4762 Built on...