On her “Feel” song, the single, Ilona has proven to be an even more powerful act portraying both empowerment and the exceptionally feminine side. This is the story of our heroine, Ilona. She comes from a rural town in Minnesota and has Ukrainian and Russian ancestry. It is her mother's recommendation to move to "the big city of" Los Angeles that has made her journey...

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...