Near Death Experience's single, "Shake," arrived not so much as music, but as a sudden, urgent insistence. It’s London psych-rock-soul alright, but brewed with something fiercely immediate, demanding attention like a ringing telephone in an empty room. The core quartet – Ian Whiteling guiding the trip with vocals and guitar fuzz, Joshua Van Ness laying down a heartbeat that feels both frantic and locked-in,...

There are rooms where a piano note can make ordinary light feel newly fragile. In "Catch Feelings", Adla seems to enter that kind of room with patience, letting emotion gather slowly rather than announcing itself too soon. The Sarajevo-born, Malta-based singer-songwriter and pianist frames her new single as the moment affection stops behaving casually and asks for a name. It is an intimate idea, but also...