On his stirring new single "No One Sees It," ErickOscar confronts the exhausting, solitary theater of living with invisible illness. Drawing from decades of playing acoustic guitar in church worship bands and a prolific personal catalog of over a thousand songs, the Panama-born, U.S.-based songwriter and producer constructs a contemporary pop ballad tailored for anyone whose struggle fails to register on a standard medical...

Three hours. A producer building a beat in real time. An artist on the couch writing melodies and most of the lyrics before the session is over. That is the engine behind Nicosongs’ "In My Mind", the Melbourne artist’s original contemporary R&B single. It is an origin story with momentum, and it suits an artist drawn to records that carry emotional depth while still giving people...