A Project Called Love just dropped the new single "Chance Encounter," and I’ve been letting its surprisingly anxious rhythm bounce around my skull all afternoon. Jay Hope, the musician handling songwriting, vocals, guitar, and bass for this solo venture, splits his life between the sun-bleached shores of Venice, California, and the concrete lines of Cologne, Germany. Usually deeply rooted in the punk and grunge...

Brother Dolly tunes into a beautifully bizarre frequency on their new synth-pop single, "Transmission Number 5". Working as an enigmatic trio separated by entirely different time zones, Dan Whitehouse, Jason Tarver, and Tom Greenwood piece their music together across oceans. They fold the audio residue of everyday life—the rhythmic rush of a Tokyo subway, the hollow whir of spinning bicycle wheels—into an intensely hypnotic,...