Some tracks simply refuse to wait politely for your attention; they pull you right into the middle of the messiest, most thrilling part of growing up. "Kinda Love It" is exactly that kind of record. Romanian pop artist Francis On My Mind has returned with a new single via Universal Music Romania that bottles up the exact second a friendship crosses the line into romance. It...

Blind Man’s Daughter has constructed something peculiar with the single “Harbor Boulevard,” a song that feels less like a piece of music and more like discovering a perfectly preserved room from a house that no longer exists. Ashley Wolfe’s project here builds a world with the clean, approachable architecture of country-pop, yet there’s a strange dust mote shimmer in the air—those cinematic flourishes—that catches...