Marston and Baldi open “Outside” with a contradiction I keep tripping over: a song about wanting to hide indoors that sounds built for sprinting down a sunlit street. The title track is brisk, rhythmic, all soaring hooks and power pop muscle, while its narrator quietly plots an escape from the cheerful crowd. It’s an anthem for anyone who has smiled through a party while...

Jimmy Scott Free’s return with “Turn Back Time,” featuring the potent vocals of Kim English, is a peculiar kind of exorcism. It’s a track with a passport full of stamps—born of a Southend sensibility, aged in Barcelona, and now arriving on our shores—yet its emotional core is stuck stubbornly in a single, unchangeable moment. This is a song that tells you to dance while...