Jon Gold’s new single, "Lullaby for a Dream," is an act of gorgeous disorientation. You see the name—a pianist rooted in the intricate soils of jazz—and you prepare for one thing, but what arrives is a mist-laden skiff drifting from an entirely different shore. Gold, a Delaware musician, has composed a piece of British-Gaelic folk, and the cognitive dissonance is half the immediate magic....

We all know the feeling of wanting something so badly it keeps you awake at night, only to freeze the second you actually have to reach for it. That specific, stomach-dropping panic is exactly what London indie pop artist Luke Martin bottles up and sets on fire in his debut single, 'Superstar'. It is the kind of track that hits you immediately in the chest before...