Bracknell outfit The Mustard tackle the dizzying friction of grief and endurance on their sweeping new single, "Where We're Goin". There is an immediate, nervous propulsion at work: a nimble, rapidly plucked motif snaps forward against a persistent low-end thrum, generating kinetic tension before detonating into a chorus soaked in soaring synths and wide-open sky. It taps into the stadium-sized earnestness of Simple Minds...

There is a dizzying, tarot-deck logic running through DreamGood’s sprawling concept album, "Paris Novella". Formed in 2009, the cinematic art-pop trio Mitchell Sloan, Joshua Heath, and Glenn Heath have long inhabited the borderlands between dancefloors and private dream states. Here, they dive straight into the theater of divination, psychic static, and existential reckoning. The record behaves like a handful of eccentric confessions pulled at...