Willow’s Experimental Pivot & 9 Other New Songs Out This Week

Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cobra” is dense with metaphor but its her biting honesty and vulnerability — about her love life, mental health, and legal struggles — that leaves the biggest impression.

WILLOW is constantly experimenting with her sound and her latest, “alone,” shows yet another completely new side to her: jazzy, improvisational, and wrangling with her own solitude.

Tokischa’s on shrooms, molly, tequila, and every other adult confectionary on “CANDY,” a head-splitting reggaeton banger to take you from night to dawn.

There is a side of grief on this glitchy, ethereal club cut from Iranian-Dutch singer Sevdaliza and Grimes about being young and growing old. “I will rave forever,” promises Sevdaliza.

A shuffling clear-eyed indie rock tune from Kacy Hill, whose magnetic and sterling voice is still a stunner.

Months after sampling the Law & Order theme song, Spain’s coolest rap voice Bb trickz is channeling Charlie Brown for her latest — which isn’t actually about Charlie Brown but does take a languid, “lazy day” note.

Dancehall princess Shenseea and Bronx’s rap princess Lola Brooke deliver liquid nitrogen cool evisceration: “I got the type of money that can put ya six feet.”

Wisp is the project of a 19-year-old teen from San Francisco who no one knows anything about except that they’re making remarkably great, moody shoegaze.

Press play for a potent audiovisual throwback to heavy, ‘90s grunged out rock a la Mazzy Star.

Norway’s Fakethias constructs an exhilerating, racing electronic heartbeat around his song’s singular lyric: “You’re so special.”