With "A Piece of Me," Western Australia’s Bailey Perrie offers up a pop rock grenade with the pin already pulled, cleverly disguised as a twisted love song. It thunders forward with a cinematic, arena-ready confidence that makes its raw, emotionally brutalist core all the more disarming. The effect is something like finding a tear-stained diary page taped to the side of a massive firework...

Cindy B, the East London prodigy, who has been painting the music industry with her vibrant palette of influences, has returned to the scene with her pulsating summer anthem "Like The Water". Being a mere twenty years old doesn't hold back this gifted singer-songwriter, whose music presents a sonic tapestry woven with threads borrowed from Aaliyah's sultry R&B, Bowie's eccentric rock, Taylor Swift's narrative lyrics,...