To begin, Mahuna's new single “Far-Off Summer’s Night” does not fill the room with sound so much as it hollows out a small, reverent space within it. This is a song that arrives like a fog from the fields of Monaghan, a gentle haunting born of a Belfast past and a Berlin present, carrying with it the DNA of quiet sorcerers like Nick Drake...

The best breakup comebacks do not beg for the microphone. They take it, turn up the guitar, and leave the room with the bill. Exzenya’s “B!tch Please” is built for the moment. This 3:17 blues-rock single turns a cheating-husband story away from misery and toward the dry satisfaction of seeing the deal clearly. The person who thought she was stealing a life is handed the less...