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...

Claudia Balla has just released her sweeping new single, "The Old Magnolia". As a Hungarian-born, Switzerland-based chanteuse and practicing psychiatrist, Balla naturally possesses a unique vantage point on the human mind's fractured mechanics. Her work frequently carves out an inclusive, melancholic space, merging classical and jazz influences with modern pop sensibilities. Here, she performs a surgical autopsy on a uniquely modern delusion: the dreaded...