The particular emotional confusion of modern dating culture, the way someone can be simultaneously intimate and emotionally unavailable, can make you feel genuinely seen while moving effortlessly between people, generates a specific kind of disorientation that ZK Jade has identified with precision and built a song around. Instagram, TikTok, Apple Music, Spotify ‘Good Lover’, the latest single from the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, takes that experience as its subject and delivers it...

Friendship as the subject of a love song is a more radical choice than it might initially appear in a pop landscape that overwhelmingly orients its romantic vocabulary toward romantic partnership. Molly Stone’s new single ‘I Got You’ makes that choice with complete conviction, delivering a playful and heartfelt tribute to the specific kind of female friendship that functions as chosen family, the bonds built from shared unhinged moments and unconditional loyalty that deserve their own...

For fans of Phoebe Bridgers, MUNA, The Japanese House, and boygenius, this Liverpool-based queer non-binary producer and multi-instrumentalist brings a studied restraint to their release… There is a specific kind of heartbreak that refuses to resolve neatly: the kind where no one is really to blame and nothing is really over. Jensyn has been mining that territory across their recent run of singles, and ‘Somebody Else’ finds them at their most unsparing. Where previous singles like ‘Not the...