Indie pop artist Maz introduces herself with a soft bang on "Kiss Kiss Boom." Written after she reunited with an ex, there is a low-slung energy to the electronic beat that gives the song a nonchalance while her lyrics reveal someone quietly freaking out beneath the surface. "I'm so magnetized by your touch," she sings with an obsession hiding as ice-cold detachment. -- DR
Brooklyn experimental duo Larum have announced a sequel to 2022's The Music of Hildegard von Bingen, returning to the work of the eponymous medieval composer, writer, philosopher, mystic, medical practitioner, and abbess (the nun-in-chief at an abbey). On its first single, guitar legend Bill Orcutt plays brooding electric chords over a trickling stream of static and field recordings, growing bolder with spurts of shredding and waves of reverb but no catharsis can be found. The dread that's present from the start hangs like a dark cloud long past the song's final notes. -- Raphael Helfand