There is a specific kind of magic that happens when an artist decides to stop overthinking and starts feeling. For Joshua Pearlstein, that moment of clarity arrived in the form of a sleepless night and a single, urgent creative impulse. His latest single, “Wanna Dance”, is the result of that urgency, a track that feels less like a calculated career move and more like a...

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...