Ultan’s single, "The Tempest," erupts not so much into the room as it does through the floorboards, dragging with it the scent of wet wool and imminent confrontation. This Dublin solo musician, a cartographer of past agonies, presents an energetic rock piece that feels less like a song about history and more like a fragment of it, throbbing and urgent. The main riff careers...

The indie pop artist delivers a seven-track album that feels exactly like the emotional whiplash of your twenties You know that feeling when you are walking home late at night, the streetlights are flickering, and your brain is cycling through every mistake you have ever made, only to suddenly feel completely invincible? That is exactly the energy Lana Crow captures on her third studio album. "In...