The title of Rusty Reid’s new single, "Attitude Change," has the sterile ring of a corporate warning, which makes the desperate, heart-on-the-floor plea within it all the more jarring. This is the sound of the final straw, a melodic ultimatum delivered while someone else in the room is looking at the baby, or the TV, or anywhere but at the person whose love is...

On the digital single “Stay a While,” Neon Diffraction the electronic project helmed by producer Rupert Goddard teams up with Fenton King to pull off a curious paradox: making a furious 174 BPM pulse feel like an unhurried sanctuary. Liquid drum & bass so often hungers for relentless forward travel, yet this piece asks you to linger. It plants King’s expressive, blues-inflected vocal delivery...