Listening to Libby Ember’s single “Alibi” is a study in strange emotional temperatures. The sound is a down-tempo, sun-dusted blanket of soft guitars and gentle synth pads, the kind of arrangement you’d put on to feel safe. But the feeling it leaves behind is a deep, architectural cold, the kind you find in the shadowed corners of an old stone church long after the...

Ghanaian singer Brenny has released her latest single, “Remedy,” an R&B-Afrobeats record that explores the emotional toll of loving someone who keeps you guessing. The song sits with the discomfort of uncertainty that comes from being unsure where you stand with someone, and from the overthinking that follows. Across the track, Brenny sings into that space, searching for peace amid the chaos of an unresolved...