Heartbreak is loud enough before anyone turns it into content. RYNB’s “Therapy” takes the opposite route: the pop R&B and trap soul single brings the listener into the quiet moment after the argument, when leaving begins to feel safer than explaining. It is the first release in his Rexius Records rollout, and it makes its point fast. The need for healing is not framed as...

Have you ever felt a strange sense of nostalgia for a time you never lived in? Like a phantom limb for a past that isn’t yours. It’s a peculiar sensation, that anachronistic ache. Listening to “Lost,” the debut album from Dallas artist Jake Vera, evokes a similar feeling. It’s a record built with the tools of the 21st century, a collaboration forged in the crucible of...