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...

The Italian drill riser Kouman turns two quiet years into a punchy, slang-heavy return built for late-night replays and hungry playlists. 'Underdogs' hits like somebody walking back into the room after everyone assumed he had left the building. Kouman does not waste the moment with a soft reset. The Bologna-born artist, now shaped by years in London, makes his return feel charged, impatient, and slightly dangerous...