There are rooms where a piano note can make ordinary light feel newly fragile. In "Catch Feelings", Adla seems to enter that kind of room with patience, letting emotion gather slowly rather than announcing itself too soon. The Sarajevo-born, Malta-based singer-songwriter and pianist frames her new single as the moment affection stops behaving casually and asks for a name. It is an intimate idea, but also...

Well now, here’s The Flying Beets with their single "I See Through You," and it lands with the distinct thud of knowing something you almost wish you didn't. Singer/guitarist Nathan Waller, flanked by David Cross on bass and Steven Clements on drums, crafts an alt-rock sound here that feels less like soaring rebellion and more like pacing anxiously in a beautifully furnished, yet soundproof,...