Since he started sharing music on TikTok in the early 2020s, Oregon singer-songwriter Alec Duckart’s Searows project has increasingly gained repute via co-signs from famous fans like Ethel Cain and Fleet Foxes mastermind Robin Pecknold. Searows’ second album, Death in the Business of Whaling, follows 2024’s flush EP and further deepens his sound, a blend of Phoebe Bridgers’ close-mic’d confessional indie rock and the skyscraping guitars wielded by contemporaries like Soccer Mommy, Keaton Henson, and Blondshell. The title takes cues from a line in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and the album’s resulting oceanic sweep is given extra oomph courtesy of producer Trevor Spencer, who’s worked similar wonders for artists like Beach House, Mary Lattimore, and Father John Misty.