Adapting the translated Scriptures to lyrics and music poses extraordinary challenges: irregular scansion, wide emotional dynamics, and wooden diction are just a few. The challenges are so great, in fact, that most self-aware musicians can’t muster the necessary courage to even dare an attempt. Yet Psallos’s “Romans” seems to turn the weaknesses of adaptation into its strengths—an ever-adapting adaptation that manages to both communicate and illuminate Paul’s epistle.

Wistful and fierce, Deep Sea Diver’s SECRETS submits the strength of craft to the demands of feeling to yield an exquisitely well-balanced and self-controlled musical recollection of the (sometimes broken) promises of intimacy. FULL REVIEW: goo.gl/Lux6Hj

Welcoming, earnest, and playful, Permission to Feel gives you space to appreciate it in your time. It would be best to consider it on its own terms.

Finger-picking wizardry mixed with heart-wrenching lyrics equals folk rock at its very finest.

Scrappy, eclectic, quirky, and sincere. In other words, Flying Scroll Flight Control is a fantastic Half-Handed Cloud record.