Brother Dolly tunes into a beautifully bizarre frequency on their new synth-pop single, "Transmission Number 5". Working as an enigmatic trio separated by entirely different time zones, Dan Whitehouse, Jason Tarver, and Tom Greenwood piece their music together across oceans. They fold the audio residue of everyday life—the rhythmic rush of a Tokyo subway, the hollow whir of spinning bicycle wheels—into an intensely hypnotic,...

When I first heard Liz Nash and her latest single, "Little Box House", my mind immediately wandered to the structural integrity of a hermit crab’s shell. There is something profoundly architectural about this track, yet soft like a blueprint drawn on a velvet napkin. Nash, hailing from Mount Dora, Florida, seems to have distilled the specific heavy humidity of a Southern downpour into a...