Minor Moon

At the heart of Minor Moon’s open-ended and knotty country rock songs is an undeniably inviting lightness. While the Chicago-based songwriter and bandleader Sam Cantor writes impressionistic songs about the end of the world, they’re wrapped in such a warm blanket of lush guitars and pastoral twang that they always leave a hopeful spark. Minor Moon’s latest single, “Miriam Underwater,” simmers with interlocking guitar riffs and wah-tinged psychedelia, but the track’s buoyancy is layered with the intimate and narrative quality of Cantor’s songwriting: “I know you love me and you know I cannot follow / There’s something nothing but the water can give.”