The Mallard (Photo: Marcus Alcino) Editors’ Picks is a new feature collecting music that we’ve been enjoying recently. Ben: Hearing these new songs by The Mallard leak out one at a time, and knowing that the band has already called it quits, is starting to feel like the beginning of a death by a thousand cuts. It stings all the more because "Crystals & Candles" is the best song I've heard yet from this group yet, a linear, dare I say it?, pop-inclined track that sounds like a band approaching the peak, not teetering on the precipice. Finding [...]