Tomasz Kowalczyk and Benita Rose have delivered something beautifully startling with their collaborative album, "Benita Rose Plays Tomasz Kowalczyk". It takes a staggering amount of vulnerability to hand the literal blueprint of your psyche to another human being. Yet, here we have Kowalczyk, a prolific Polish composer, trusting the world-renowned American concert pianist Rose to excavate his mind and translate his wordless, heavily emotional...

The Burton D’Agostini Procedure plunge headlong into the labyrinth of an untreatable alienation on their new single, “Strange Condition.” Tailored for pitch-black rooms and immersive headphone listening, the track finds the seasoned American duo steering indie pop and synth-pop into shadowy corridors paved with ’60s psychedelia and retro analog warmth. Jeff Burton delivers a vocal that hangs between clinical diagnosis and late-night confession, anchored...