I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...

With Eye of TJ dropping "Letting Go of You (Acoustic)", I found myself staring at a crack in my ceiling, contemplating how the ghost of a scream can be heavier than the scream itself. You know that specific, ringing emptiness that fills a room after a nine-year war finally ends? That’s where this track lives. It sits in the debris. https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfEdpqzJNBFcmDaOwnJL3?si=5109fb7bcd564625 The project describes this release...