Kent Owens, a name that sounds like it should be on a library card next to “Hemingway,” but instead it's on the digital shelf next to my slightly messy playlist. This Cambridge-based creator of soundscapes – I’m resisting calling them songs, but…well – just released “Fade Away,” a single that feels like an open window after a long winter. It’s a soft rock hum...

Geo Chandler's new single, “Spent,” arrived like an unexpected late-night espresso – jarring, yes, but with a curiously welcome clarity. It sets out to bottle that bone-deep weariness, the kind where your own thoughts echo a little too loudly in the cavern of your skull, a place where even the dust motes seem to sigh. https://open.spotify.com/track/3UZAFl31kun56K1VCEbmx7?si=67NnS83cSGqiwrfnsPF3xw Chandler, an Edinburgh architect of sound, builds this with a...