To listen to Stevie Hawkins’ take on "A Song For You" is to have a conversation with a ghost in a dimly lit room after the show has ended. Hawkins, long the rhythmic engine for the song's originator Leon Russell, steps from behind the drum kit to the microphone, and the space between these two roles compresses decades into four and a half minutes....

The Italian producer turns emotional collapse into the most compelling dancefloor therapy of the year. Some records hit you like a sudden change in air pressure right before a thunderstorm. You feel the shift in your chest before you even process the sound. That is exactly the energy Benedetta Gaggioli brings to her latest project. Operating as Beta Libre, the Italian artist has delivered a 14-track...