FLOOD

If only more of this genre-exercise of an album stood fast on the light, ethereal sound of its opener.

Given its title, intimacy is the intended promise from this unadorned eavesdropping on Jeff Buckley’s early development as a major-label star in the making.

“SVIIB” is no act of mourning.

Like an artist rising out of the limelight, Livingston’s backing arrangements are free from expectation or, frankly, standards of any kind.

The “Fargo” actor tells us about his directorial debut and the unmaking of an iconic record store.

Ilunga calls his genre noir wave, but no matter what landscape this blend of European and African influences crosses, Petite Noir is a new world of music worth exploring.

Is he sarcastic or actually seething with real, gulp, feelings?

OK, Potter knows who she isn’t, but does she know who she is?