There are songs that sound like a place, and then there’s Neil Potter’s "Música El Idioma Del Amor," which sounds like a specific time of day in a specific place you’ve never been. It’s a curious creation, a sonic postcard from a parallel-universe Seville where the flamenco guitarist and the local rock progressive have decided to build something new on a foundation of pure...

Robin Swann’s new single, “Flaunt You,” lands with the deceptive sheen of polished indie pop, but listen closer – there’s grit under its fingernails, a heart beating anxiously beneath the bright synth layers often crafted with collaborator Xander Lee. It captures that peculiar, stomach-flipping vertigo of falling headlong into a love that feels both utterly destined and terrifyingly risky. You know the feeling, like...