Boston-based indie electronic producer MOMARZ just dropped his new EP, "THE THEORY", delivering a fiercely human reaction to an increasingly automated musical landscape. He explicitly rejects AI. Instead, he burrows into his home studio with GarageBand and a curated setup of gear specifically a Yamaha P-125, KORG microKEY, and an M-VAVE MIDI piano. By operating this way, he effectively bleeds the natural, analog resonance...

Listening to John Keenan’s “Wreckage of the Past” feels like being handed the audio diary of a ghost who is not yet dead. This is an 18-song excavation of a psyche at war, made all the more intense by the knowledge that Keenan is the sole architect—producer, writer, mixer, and tormented protagonist. The whole project has the hermetically sealed, slightly feverish quality of a...