Janet Devlin releases "Candy", and she sounds like she’s wearing a smirk that could stop traffic. This track doesn't tiptoe; it struts. From the jump, we are met with a rhythmic, plucking string vibration a gritty, staccato backbone that acts like the nervous system of the song. It’s propelled by a heavy, stomping beat that feels authoritative, the kind of pulse that makes you...

On the new single “Under the Willow Tree,” 23 Fields the folk-Americana project of solo artist Step confronts the strange, yawning distance between who we were at seventeen and the people we eventually become. The track takes shape around a lively current of bright, resonant strumming and intricate, cyclic plucking. Before long, a gentle, pulsing thud locks into place beneath the intertwining chord patterns,...