This fun, island vibe drops at the perfect time when we all could use a little extra warmth.

George Walker's final Piano Sonata might be short in length, but it's long on ideas, unfolding in a colorful thicket of textures and episodes.

The octet's strung-together influences – Talk Talk's whisper-quiet post-rock, The Velvet Underground's yearning drones and Chamberlain's rootsy noodling – mingle with ambition.

The Berlin-based goth-pop artist plumbs the tale of that ever-entwined couple buried in ash in Pompeii as a way into the concept of perpetual love.

The Norwegian pop experimentalist trains her encompassing talent for shibboleth deconstruction towards a new "normcore institution" — her own marriage.

This latest remix of the 2020 track might be the Trojan Horse we need to introduce amapiano, a spacious form of deep house music, to America.

A highlight of the British singer-songwriter's first major-label mixtape, "papi bones" is addictive and cathartic in its physicality.

"Smile," like many tracks on RuPaul's latest album, mimics the sounds of early bubblegum hyperpop but waters them down in an act of bleak corporate reappropriation.

Boy Harsher teams up with fellow darkwaver Mariana Saldaña of BOAN for a pulsing, '80s-inspired synth-pop track that single-handedly demands a fog machine for your listening pleasure.

Glasper's piano sets a chiming gospel loop, over which Killer Mike and Big K.R.I.T. rap verses about perseverance and positivity.