Listening to Elena C. Lockleis’s new single, “Mind - Vs. - Heart,” feels like witnessing a civil war fought entirely within a single nervous system. The sound is an intimate knot of pop architecture, the kind Julia Michaels patents in her sleep, where a confession arrives not as a ballad but as a skittish, rhythm-driven pulse. You feel the frantic heartbeat right there in...

Because Mr. Julz and Bessem helped bring Afrobeat to the forefront of the music business, you will find that you appreciate this song even more than before. "Recliner Baby" is an upbeat Afrobeat and Afropop love song that tells the story of a man who is confessing his feelings to the woman he has recently fallen in love with. Anyone who listens to the music will...