Austin-based artist Hoxsey arrives with "Harvest Moon Sessions", an ambitious, unpredictable collection that catches the exact chill of early autumn when the sun sinks early and the wind carries an unsettling bite. It sidesteps seasonal kitsch entirely. Instead of manufactured haunted-house theatrics, the record confronts mortality, folklore, and the strange detritus of human memory by wandering through genres like an explorer traversing an overgrown...

Love Ghost and The Skinner Brothers have dropped their new single, “Worth it,” and it arrives not so much with a knock as with the splintering crack of a door being kicked off its hinges. This is the sound of the emotional floor giving way. It’s a raw-nerved piece of alternative rock that scrapes at the psyche, possessing the same comforting quality as a...