Listening to Zov.yay’s new single, “No Watches,” is like catching yourself forgetting what day of the week it is, and then deciding you quite like it. There’s a distinct feeling of unshouldering here, a shedding of temporal anxiety. Zov.yay’s flow is less a performance and more a conversation you’ve walked into, a comfortable, self-assured account of having arrived somewhere important without having watched the...

Naomi Jane’s “Measure Forever” approaches romance without the glossy filter, and with that, there are big feelings here.  The song understands that real love is rarely just candlelight and grand declarations. Sometimes, it is imagining your future together while wondering how you will survive someone else’s snoring. Naomi is already looking beyond the present, picturing vows and a shared life, but she never loses sight of...