Most music that arrives with the label “meditative” feels like an instruction to relax—a gentle but firm command. Karen Salicath Jamali’s “Angel Gabriel’s Light,” however, doesn’t instruct; it simply arrives. Listening to this single for the first time is like walking into a room to find the light has changed color, subtly and without explanation. You don’t question how it happened. You just stand...

South African-born, London-based pop artist Lola Audreys has condensed the fleeting magic of youthful spontaneity into her new single, "Summer On A Sunday." Her childhood spent on a rural farm clearly lends a grounded, almost unsettlingly raw emotional honesty to an immaculate piece of modern synth-pop. https://open.spotify.com/track/4sPRSaHTIRtsHLqT5KEQwQ?si=kClwhH4aRP68qg4yS94Mqg The track operates on a steady, driving pulse beneath bright, highly rhythmic sequences. Those shimmering, bubbly melodic lines bounce...