Empty Pinata’s “I Have A Huge Crush On Doja Cat” – A Playful Ode to Modern Infatuation There’s something oddly refreshing about a debut single that doesn’t try to be everything at once. "I Have A Huge Crush On Doja Cat," a song by Alejandro Rodriguez's alter ego Empty Pinata, has become a big hit. The song sounds like an uncensored diary entry set to music....

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...