Mike Stewart Theory’s new single, “It Reaches Us,” feels less like a piece of music and more like a strange meteorological event happening inside your head. You’re immediately dropped into a groove that has the smooth, shoulder-rolling confidence of 80s soul, but something is off in the atmosphere. The air is thick with a psychedelic haze, a sense of temporal displacement that is both...

“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,...