The debut EP of Janet Noh, “Love Me More” emerges as a shining light of empowerment and self-discovery. This classically trained pianist and pop-R&B songwriter, singer, and producer who used to work and live on Wall Street now places all her different experiences from here and there into an EP that speaks straight to your soul. “Love Me More” is a five-song trip through the terrain...

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...