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...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...