For TEN, "OUTWEST" and "IRL" Pair a Look Back With a Leap Forward

TEN has spent ten years being watched, and "OUTWEST" and "IRL" are his attempt to be understood. The two songs arrive as one release, and that packaging is the argument: one of them reaches toward where he is going, the other circles back over the decade that got him here. On their own, each tells half a story. Side by side, they sketch the fuller shape of an artist opening a new chapter without p