Everyone Is Crying Out to Me, Beware, the second album from Ukrainian-born singer-songwriter Alina Simone, is utterly haunting.

NPR: Alina Simone: 'Half My Kingdom'

It seemed as if everyone was crying.

WSJ: 'What Happened to Those Poor People?'

Everyone Is Crying Out to Me is a vehicle for Simone's own rediscovery of the culture she left behind, as well as a way for her to share that culture with Americans who have no understanding or knowledge of it.

NPR: Alina Simone: 'Half My Kingdom'

Everyone around him was trying to help him in some way, but he could not be consoled and only kept crying.

NEWYORKER: Salvatore Scibona