Emily Jane Powers (Chicago)
Marriage and career have failed to make Emily Jane Powers feel settled. Her new album Restless, written during a period of what Powers describes as "restlessness and discontent" is a bracingly intimate meditation on the strains that monogamy, work, and family place on identity and desire. Whether she's leading a hard-charging rock arrangement or singing quietly to herself, Restless is united by a confrontational level of honesty and vulnerability.