Judy Pearson turns post-romance grief inside out on her cutting new EP, "Diary of A Heartbreak (Chapter Two)". The London-based songwriter has always traded in stripped-back, intimate confessions, but here the diary entries carry a distinct razor edge. Heartbreak is rarely neat; it is petty, funny, exhausting, and eventually liberating. Pearson captures that exact, twitchy threshold where mourning an ex finally curdles into amusement...

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...