Steeped in emotion and pulsating with life, Matthew Birch’s Not Where I Thought I’d Be is a candid recollection of love found and lost. Divulging every wind in the road of his emotional sojourn, the singer-songwriter who sings under the moniker Our Violet Room draws in listeners with cinematic soundscapes and evocative lyrics. Birch explains that the album, from tracks one through seven, takes you on the complete journey of the relationship. “Not Where I Thought I’d Be is the story of my relationship from the first meeting to the bitter end and how that affected the plans and future hopes I had for my life,” he says. From the sweet thoughtfulness of “Secrets,” which utilizes strings to stir emotion and a guitar breakdown in the bridge to demonstrate passion, to the vivid imagery on “Winter...