Listening to aktenzeichen_T’s new EP, "Midnight Between Lagrange Points", feels less like putting on a record and more like unsealing a classified file. The artist's name, German for "case file number," seems to promise a kind of cold, bureaucratic evidence, and the Leipzig producer delivers—but the subject of this file is the messy, beating heart of human conflict. A case file rendered in kick...

Carson Ferris Tackles Toxic Relationships in Electro-Pop "Ghosts" Collaboration with Matthew Parker Carson Ferris, a rising pop star, drops the emotional electro-pop song "Ghosts," which is about how hard it is to let go of bad relationships and move on. The single is Ferris's most important work with producer Matthew Parker. It combines her emotional singing with computerised beats to make a song that is both...