Multidisciplinary artist Emily Daccarett maps out the strange, beautiful geography of grief and eternal devotion on her new two-track EP, "Another World". https://open.spotify.com/album/6nmbMkULCfCwQWtUitUnEm?si=QCMOCzaMQSmQvGjj5TE5JA We constantly talk about losing people, but we rarely discuss where that massive, suddenly homeless love is supposed to go. Daccarett, an artist who fuses couture training with a sharp cinematic vision, gives that immense emotion a pulsating, alternative-pop body. Written after the...

Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...