Patrick Hynes’ new single, "Baby’s High Again," doesn't so much arrive as materialize, like a half-remembered scent of bourbon and regret clinging to a velvet curtain. This “Midnight Country” he’s cultivating, it’s less dusty plains, more the blue, flickering light of a motel television at 3 AM, illuminating a room where decisions have been made, then unmade, then made again. Hynes, a Scot with...

You should never give up on yourself, no matter how bad things become. It's not worth it to lose who you are, so don't do it. Not for anything on Earth, no. In that case, you'll find common ground with American singer and songwriter Emily Nicole Green, whose new single "Thief" focuses on just such a situation. "Thief" is a song about being ignored or deserted...