Dylan Forshner's new EP, “Hopeless Optimism,” presents itself not so much as a collection of songs but as a series of candid diary entries set to intricately picked acoustic strings. This five-song journey from the Welland, Canada artist begins in a place of palpable internal wrestling, where the lyrics – and Forshner’s delivery – map out the grim territories of being overwhelmed, using substances...

WHITEFIRE reaches through the heavy silence of the Texas plains with "Until I See You (Pt.1)", a single that functions like a compass needle spinning wildly in a magnetic storm. It is a work forged in the specific, agonizing fires of loss the passing of the artist's son, Elijah and it demands your attention not through force, but through a terrifyingly honest vulnerability. https://open.spotify.com/track/27uQqDCCvJyaFcq6adRXpY?si=a186b28242b847da The track...