Sarah Christiansen's tranquil new album under the name Sun Swept uses wind instruments and synthesizers to evoke Colorado's outdoors.

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s—hip ...

Music from the past decade or so feels as if it hasn’t been made by passionate people and instead has become something rolling off ...