There’s a curious kind of cruelty beating at the heart of Emma Whybrow’s new single, “Amnesia,” and it is utterly exhilarating. Here is a massive, pulsing techno anthem—a thundering, four-on-the-floor declaration built for vast, sweaty rooms—and yet, tucked inside its propulsive machinery is an intensely private, bitingly personal act of dismissal. It’s like finding a handwritten "get lost" note folded neatly inside a fireworks...

Max Norton confronts the quiet sting of fading memory on his luminous new single, “Dark Moon.” Operating out of his home studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the longtime drummer handles every instrument himself, weaving western-tinted indie rock and dream pop into an expansive sonic tapestry. There is a tangible craft in the way his live rhythm section anchors the piece driving forward with a...