From the songwriter's notebook to the soul: Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle tackles a decade of socio-geo-political upheaval with cathartic, allegorical bite — the bear who wants to be an eagle who cried wolf. Brian Jin's Horizons finds divinity in strange places, from Hawaiian-cowboy-ukulele-jazz to dream-dictated lyrics (yes, John Lennon sang one in his sleep), while SMIC's The Upside (Of Losing Everything) trades noise for something "quieter, heavier, and built to stick around." L'Anarchiste Heureux's Le Pneu Libre drifts through a poetic, nostalgic France where a flat tire becomes a meditation on freedom.

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