Swiss duo LOB confront the quiet, slow erosion of shared ground on their arresting new single, "Rosarot Donkelschwarz." Operating from an artistic haven high on Switzerland’s Brünig Pass, Liliane Bürli and Bujar Berisha channel alternative pop and dark electropop into an incisive study of ideological drift and fading intimacy. The track examines what happens when stubborn convictions ossify into rigid armor, splintering two people...

The new single from Quentin Moore, “Kiss Your Lips,” doesn’t so much start as it seeps into the room, lowering the lights and raising the temperature by a degree or two. Moore is at the piano, his vocals draping over the notes with the patient weight of heavy silk. The entire thing feels excavated from some lost '70s studio session, a slow jam built...