Lost Lot’s new single, “Waiting,” does a funny thing to the air in the room. It settles it. For three-and-a-half minutes, everything seems to hold its breath, letting a story of profound and stubborn love fill the space. On the surface, it’s a gorgeous slice of widescreen Americana—guitars shimmering with the texture of sun-bleached highway signs, a rhythm section that provides a steady, relentless...

Waiting for help can quietly become a way of delaying a decision. Rami takes that uneasy idea and gives it a clean, personal focus on “Save Myself,”. Classified as pop, art pop, and cinematic pop, the record begins with the feeling of being lost and unsure of what comes next. Its answer is not a sudden outside intervention. RAMI’s central idea is simpler and harder: the...