"Dopamine" hits before you can settle in. Weekend Millionaires begin their debut single with a delay-treated guitar figure that feels half invitation, half warning, then singer Maisie cuts through it with a question aimed straight at the listener. The three-piece from Sheffield have built an indie rock record around that instant of recognition, when a good feeling starts asking for another turn. Weekend Millionaires are Maisie,...

Jon Gold’s new single, "Lullaby for a Dream," is an act of gorgeous disorientation. You see the name—a pianist rooted in the intricate soils of jazz—and you prepare for one thing, but what arrives is a mist-laden skiff drifting from an entirely different shore. Gold, a Delaware musician, has composed a piece of British-Gaelic folk, and the cognitive dissonance is half the immediate magic....