“Reavolution” arrives with a clear instruction: look inward, then move. Reaven’s new 11-song Modern Rock album takes a personal idea of change and gives it real public force. The 40-minute, 29-second record presents the band at a bigger, louder and more intense point. Raw energy drives the record, but so does purpose. Reaven wants freedom and transformation to feel active, not distant. Romeo Bassi, Vincent Fernandes,...

Listening to gnomes’ new EP, “Microclimbs,” feels less like hearing songs and more like stumbling upon a meticulously catalogued collection of internal weather systems. The Berlin artist has shed an acoustic skin, emerging with a sound that’s electric, nervy, and complex. This is music for feeling overwhelmed in a way that’s almost, dare I say it, cozy. https://open.spotify.com/album/6a9jnB0IcQDdP6BHLaHpdJ?si=1zS3355CRwe4oaDcdouNeA The warm, watery warble of a Wurli synth...