With The Mortal Prophets and the release "Hide Inside The Moon", John Beckmann isn't just making a record; he seems to be curating a gallery exhibit for the ears, where the paintings are made of reverb and the sculptures are built from anxiety. It’s a curious, swirling thing a "gentle psychedelic weather system," to borrow a phrase, that hits you with the specific humidity...

On his stirring new single "No One Sees It," ErickOscar confronts the exhausting, solitary theater of living with invisible illness. Drawing from decades of playing acoustic guitar in church worship bands and a prolific personal catalog of over a thousand songs, the Panama-born, U.S.-based songwriter and producer constructs a contemporary pop ballad tailored for anyone whose struggle fails to register on a standard medical...