Heartbreak is loud enough before anyone turns it into content. RYNB’s “Therapy” takes the opposite route: the pop R&B and trap soul single brings the listener into the quiet moment after the argument, when leaving begins to feel safer than explaining. It is the first release in his Rexius Records rollout, and it makes its point fast. The need for healing is not framed as...

Violet Love has offered up an EP titled "Destined to Fail," and it arrives less like a prediction and more like a pre-existing condition, a medical chart for a soul that’s been diagnosed with itself. The DIY recording quality doesn’t feel lo-fi for aesthetics; it feels necessary, like these songs could only have been born in a sealed-off room where the air was getting...