How many times have you heard a song and thought, “This song is a page out of my diary.” It’s as if the songwriter sneaked into your brain while you were sleeping and borrowed a few storylines for lyrical fodder. Great songs often act as a mirror to our personal stories and have the same properties as an ear marked photograph to bring us back to a time in our lives. Along with melodies and harmonies, music’s storytelling powers are infinite! This week’s new releases celebrate the emotive properties of marrying prose to music.