Jon Gold’s new single, "Lullaby for a Dream," is an act of gorgeous disorientation. You see the name—a pianist rooted in the intricate soils of jazz—and you prepare for one thing, but what arrives is a mist-laden skiff drifting from an entirely different shore. Gold, a Delaware musician, has composed a piece of British-Gaelic folk, and the cognitive dissonance is half the immediate magic....

With 2 Divide’s new single, “Don’t Stop the Love” Reworked, one doesn’t simply listen; one is dropped into a running conversation between panic and salvation. The track begins with an oppressive sense of pressure, but it’s the dominant synth motif—a clear and glorious nod to the architectural strangeness of Kate Bush—that truly defines the space. It’s a sound that feels less like a melody...