In the crowded arena of modern hip-hop, where declarations of power are often measured in decibels and dollar signs, Exzenya’s “International Power” operates on a completely different axis. It is a calculated, composed, and deeply psychological piece of work that feels less like a song and more like a demonstration. This is power as understood by a behavioural scientist: a force that is engineered, not...

Blind Man’s Daughter has constructed something peculiar with the single “Harbor Boulevard,” a song that feels less like a piece of music and more like discovering a perfectly preserved room from a house that no longer exists. Ashley Wolfe’s project here builds a world with the clean, approachable architecture of country-pop, yet there’s a strange dust mote shimmer in the air—those cinematic flourishes—that catches...