Naomi Jane has gone big with her latest single, "Pretty Boys", which promises artistic maturity going higher proportionally to the pace of her growing stardom. The fifteen-year-old girl's voice travels beyond her age to convey a message about the love of self and beating any superficial ruse. The story of the one, with its explicit and underlined feel of independence and self-worth, captures the hearts...

The first few notes of Megapenny Music’s single, "Across the Miles," feel less like an introduction and more like a resumption. There’s a quiet confidence here, a melody that seems to pick up a conversation left hanging four decades ago—a detail about the artist’s hiatus that you can’t help but feel in the song’s DNA. Delphine Savatte’s voice enters not with a bang, but...