Judy Pearson turns post-romance grief inside out on her cutting new EP, "Diary of A Heartbreak (Chapter Two)". The London-based songwriter has always traded in stripped-back, intimate confessions, but here the diary entries carry a distinct razor edge. Heartbreak is rarely neat; it is petty, funny, exhausting, and eventually liberating. Pearson captures that exact, twitchy threshold where mourning an ex finally curdles into amusement...

Grief gets its hands in the air on "Hands Up", but it never treats the club as an escape hatch. This album from Tel Aviv producer Sonic Pulses puts house, techno, and trance in motion. It honours Shirel Sara Golan, the artist's sister, who was lost during the Nova events. The release date marks her birthday. That timing gives each upward lift a catch in the...