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....

Decades of Experience and Influence Collide in 'I'm With You,' A New Chapter in Lark's Pop Legacy. Lark is a well-known pop singer hailing from Sydney, Australia, and she is an Australian pop provocateur. During Lark's formative years, the music of Madonna, KISS, and ABBA was played often in the family home. She was attracted to the fierceness of Madonna's 1984 performance, the glitter and sass...