Every BC Camplight album has a backstory every bit as compelling as its music. A Sober Conversation is no different, as virtuoso songwriter and pianist Brian Christinzio documents the last two years of his life, finally confronting a shocking childhood trauma while embracing sobriety, to create his bravest and most revealing record. It's an enthralling, sometimes haunting quasi-concept record marked by ruthless tragic-comedic purging and sublime, intricate melody, knitting lyrical screenplays to dazzling arrangements. It is BC Camplight at the height of his remarkable powers.

Hugo Montenegro’s Rocket Man: A Tribute to Elton John is an easy listening instrumental album released in 1975 by RCA Victor. The album features jazz-pop and orchestral-style arrangements of Elton John’s songs.

Over the past decade, Greta Kline has expanded her solo musical alter ego Frankie Cosmos to a full band and, with her sixth album, developed a style and sound that retains the intimate bedroom-pop quality of her beginnings but is also fuller, richer, bigger. While Kline is the chief songwriter on Different Talking, it's a group effort—to the point that there are no external producers. Bassist Alex Bailey, drummer Hugo Stanley and keyboardist Katie Von Schleicher understand Kline's mission and don't push the songs to be something they're inherently not.

The Shadow of the Guest is a dreamy, slightly uncanny reimagining of their critically acclaimed 2023 album Sit Down for Dinner. Enlisting the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the album offers newly expanded versions of multiple songs, including today’s single, “Before (Choir Version),” a mariachi-inspired rendition of the Rick and Morty-featured internet hit “For The Damaged Coda,” and a series of ambient ASMR reworks. It is a surreal companion piece to Sit Down for Dinner exploring themes of innocence, nostalgia, and sonic curiosity.