Listening to Weston Day release "Storms" feels a bit like opening a window during a gale just to see if the glass will hold. It’s a rush of air, sudden and brisk. While his style is often bookmarked as "Elvis Costello meets Paul Simon," I hear a man frantically trying to explain a complicated heartbreak before the bar closes. https://open.spotify.com/track/1YxtWM0OIRR0ShlLMhxKmc?si=d5BvDBy8Qdib-_4WhMb-kA Armed with an 8-string baritone acoustic...

Waiting for help can quietly become a way of delaying a decision. Rami takes that uneasy idea and gives it a clean, personal focus on “Save Myself,”. Classified as pop, art pop, and cinematic pop, the record begins with the feeling of being lost and unsure of what comes next. Its answer is not a sudden outside intervention. RAMI’s central idea is simpler and harder: the...