Canadian musician Keegan Powell makes songs that explore the mystery of pain, the release of demons, and how, through it all, life may be some kind of miracle. Imbued with infectious hooks and ferocious energy, Alien Radio is a compilation album composed of previously released and unreleased tracks from Powell’s archive, spanning several separate recordings from 2016 to 2019. Inspired by wanting to contextualize his current albums with bits and bobs lost along the way, the tracks are a glimpse into an artist trying to overreach his ability and achieve it, only to forget about it altogether. An ultimate companion piece to Powell’s previous work (including the college radio staple Fear Be Gone LP), Alien Radio consists of crystal clear pop songs in the guise of quarter-life angst. With a few...