SERAh's new single, "Favorite Game", which features female vocalist Summer Rona, is the kind of track that feels less like it was composed and more like it was captured—a distress signal from a beautiful, dying star. The sound here is a curious contradiction. It’s vast and cinematic, shimmering with the sort of synthesized light that promises galaxies, but its heart is small, cramped, and...

The Jacksonville band John Muka Band turns hunger, horns, strings, and live-band heat into a single built for repeat plays. Press play and "More & More" starts acting like it already knows where your feet are going. John Muka Band does not creep into the room; the Jacksonville group walks in with a groove, a grin, and enough moving parts to make the speakers feel...