A brief encounter can borrow from the future. A look, a promising night, a partly known name can become a stage on which the mind arranges scenes that have not happened. Jillian Marks builds “You’re Not Mine” around that private act of projection. The original single finds the Vancouver singer-songwriter returning after several years with a piano-led account of desire moving faster than knowledge. Its premise...

Glass Cabin’s latest single, “I Don’t Know,” feels less like a song arriving and more like something found already playing in a dusty, roadside motel room you didn’t intend to stop at. Jess Brown and Dave Flint, the architects of this Nashville duo, have conjured a piece that sits squarely in their poetic intersection of country rock atmosphere and gothic Americana shadowplay. It's a...