Laura Stanley

Whenever “cinematic” is used to describe a piece of music, more often than not it’s because of the dramatic tenor of a string section. Alegoría, Gaby Moreno’s latest album, her seventh, has a cinematic quality to it, but not because of the instrumentation. Alegoría is cinematic because of

Molly Tuttle has bluegrass in her blood. Thanks to her father and grandfather, she grew up listening to the genre and attending bluegrass festivals. Tuttle always had the desire to make a full-length bluegrass record, and after two largely folk-rock releases — her 2019 debut When You’re Ready and her

I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Le Ren (Lauren Spear)’s Leftovers while knitting a blanket for my childhood friend’s baby. The more I listened to the Montreal-based singer-songwriter’s debut LP, the more my knitting-filled listening sessions felt like kismet. Because on Leftovers, Spear touches

Alexa Rose wrote most of Headwaters in the early stages of the pandemic, which she astutely characterizes as having “that weird lucid feeling of not-time.” Accordingly, there’s an eeriness about Rose’s second album; listening to its nine tracks feels like stepping into a liminal space. Where Rose’s

Being a teenager can be brutal, to borrow a descriptor used by bourgeoning teenage pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo. You spend your teens trying to fit in with your peers, meet your parents’ expectations, and figure out who the hell you are, often while getting your heart broken. You itch to