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...

Decades of Experience and Influence Collide in 'I'm With You,' A New Chapter in Lark's Pop Legacy. Lark is a well-known pop singer hailing from Sydney, Australia, and she is an Australian pop provocateur. During Lark's formative years, the music of Madonna, KISS, and ABBA was played often in the family home. She was attracted to the fierceness of Madonna's 1984 performance, the glitter and sass...