SERAh's new single, "Favorite Game", which features female vocalist Summer Rona, is the kind of track that feels less like it was composed and more like it was captured—a distress signal from a beautiful, dying star. The sound here is a curious contradiction. It’s vast and cinematic, shimmering with the sort of synthesized light that promises galaxies, but its heart is small, cramped, and...

Nigerian artist Boysarm makes romantic surrender sound completely effortless on his radiant new single, "I Go Lie For You". Signed to Lestat Entertainment while balancing life as a University of Lagos undergraduate, the solo musician filters contemporary Afrobeats through classic Highlife warmth and what he coins his "Elite Awakening Sounds." The track pivots on everyday Lagos street parlance: the rhetorical question "I Go Lie...