Roizys’ “All-night-alone” feels made for the moment when a bad day has run out of arguments. The independent artist from Busto Arsizio, Italy, takes a home-built electronic instrumental and gives it a steady forward push, turning solitude into a practical kind of release. It is a short record, but it knows its job: make room, set a pulse, and keep moving. Roizys, whose birth name is Ioana...

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...