Listening to gnomes’ new EP, “Microclimbs,” feels less like hearing songs and more like stumbling upon a meticulously catalogued collection of internal weather systems. The Berlin artist has shed an acoustic skin, emerging with a sound that’s electric, nervy, and complex. This is music for feeling overwhelmed in a way that’s almost, dare I say it, cozy. https://open.spotify.com/album/6a9jnB0IcQDdP6BHLaHpdJ?si=1zS3355CRwe4oaDcdouNeA The warm, watery warble of a Wurli synth...

Award-winning artist Rehya Stevens beckons listeners to peel off the soundtrack of Christmas as Christmas sets in with her new single entitled “Be My Baby By Christmas Night,” which is released from her original Christmas album “Santa’s Takin’ Over the Town.” Music runs in the veins of Rehya Stevens, and she was born into an already-established musical family. Her father, Peter Martin, was a world-renowned pianist...