Ironically, rising Filipino-Australian popstress daine’s “Product of Profit (P.O.P.)” is her least poppy release this album cycle. Over grunge guitar and glockenspiel, daine rips into the vampiric music industry. It's another hit in a stellar run. — Tobias Hess

Heaven help anyone who dares to cross K3 and Karrahbooo, two ATL rappers who always seem to be just one minor inconvenience away from crashing out on any and everyone. They link up at the strip club for “MAKE HER DANCE,” an in-your-face ode to getting paid and making it rain. — Vivian Medithi

Artist and writer Ross Simonini also makes haunting yet playful compositional work. “Theme of Done Right” from a forthcoming double album released on ULYSSA (Nirosta Steel) sounds like William Basinski is drowning in an electronic froth alongside American composer John Adams — all before it pivots to a PC Music-meets-Caroline Shaw whirlwind. — TH

I’m a little tired of cheat-code-samples, but I’ll always make an exception for a D4L nod. This Cash Cobain track is practically hollow, hinged on a sparse, echoing snap — it’s the ideal landscape for Cash and BabyChiefDoIt to trace out unruly, syncopated flows. — VM

A haunting, almost Mazzy Star-style ballad from the Danish stalwart. Her voice is warm as a hearth, and the music is timeless.

New York City DJ and producer Connor Wrong’s new track “Bedside” from their forthcoming debut album Eurydical Bloom is titularly somnambulant. On it, layers of synth ambiance and textures coalesce around bubbly percussion. The song itself moves between states of dreaming and enlivened movement — the exact state I desire to be in on the dance floor. — TH