The Far Rockaway R&B artist Jaz Vernon steps back in with a sleek single made for pre-save links, night plans, and repeat plays. "YKTV" does not beg for attention. It walks in dressed correctly, checks the lighting, and lets everyone else adjust. After a two-year pause, Jaz Vernon returns with a pop and R&B single that feels clean, stylish, and quietly charged. The title says plenty...

Anastasia Rydlevskaya makes rage feel methodical on Alchemia. Her fourth full-length album takes the four classical stages of alchemy and turns them into a hard-edged account of betrayal, trauma and feminine power. Nigredo, Albedo and Calcinatio, Citrinitas, then Rubedo each push the heroine into a new state. The result sits firmly in dark electronic music, but it also carries experimental pop and pagan motifs. That framing...