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...

South Wales four-piece The Now capture that sudden, dizzying jolt of romantic whiplash on their new single, "Did You Miss Me?" Running into a former flame across a crowded room is usually an exercise in awkward self-preservation. Here, though, the unresolved tension and mutual spark get funneled straight into bright, kinetic indie pop. Rather than agonizing over what broke, the track embraces that chaotic,...