Becky G, an American singer with Mexican roots, has racked up tens of millions of streams with hits in pop kinds from throughout the Americas. On most of her new album, “Esquinas,” she latches onto the rising recognition of regional Mexican music, reviving ballads by Vicente Fernández, the revered Mexican ranchera songwriter, and collaborating with present regional Mexican hitmakers together with Peso Pluma, Yahritza y Su Esencia and, on “Cuidadito” (“Be Cautious”), the Mexican singer Chiquis. In a bouncy duet, they element the sort of revenge they’re able to tackle a husband seen with one other lady the evening earlier than: no breakfast, slashed tires, eviction. Spoiler: It was only a dream, however he’s been warned. JON PARELES

The Canadian electronic-pop songwriter Debby Friday, who simply gained Canada’s Polaris Prize, collaborated with the Australian producer Darcy Baylis on this new single. Over a double-time break beat and calmly pulsing synthesizers, Friday sings about an obsession that retains her awake, even when the devotion might not be fully mutual. She wonders, “Is the large coronary heart my solely sin?” PARELES

The newest single from the British pop star PinkPantheress is a sugary confection with a gothic edge. “I simply had a dream I used to be useless, and I solely cared ’trigger I used to be taken from you,” she sings in her signature lilt, hopscotching throughout a skittish beat. Produced with Greg Kurstin, the observe retains the dreamy attraction of PinkPantheress’s homespun bedroom-pop however provides a glittery sheen. LINDSAY ZOLADZ

Jaja Tresch that includes Coco Argentée and Denis Dino, ‘Nonji Chom’

Right here’s a burst of sheer jubilation. Jaja Tresch and two fellow Cameroonian singers, Coco Argentée and Denis Dino, commerce verses on a observe that hurtles alongside on six-beat rhythms, drawing on bikutsi and different kinds unique to their nation. The lyrics, within the Meta’ language, inform younger individuals to heed their mother and father and to persevere. As guitars, drums, balafons (marimbas), flutes and whistles all pile into the observe, the music soars. PARELES

Absolutely the excessive level of “Hackney Diamonds,” the primary album of recent Rolling Stones songs since 2005, is “Candy Sounds of Heaven.” It begins as a free, gospelly music that simply occurs to have Stevie Surprise on keyboards; quickly, Girl Gaga arrives to commerce vocals with — and spur on — Mick Jagger. Horns are available to push the music to a grand finale, however apparently nobody needs to let it finish, and what feels like a spontaneous studio jam lifts the music to a different peak. Even on this digital period, it feels analog. PARELES

H31R — the duo of the Brooklyn rapper maassai and the New Jersey producer JWords — conjures a sound for when lust conquers rationality on “Proper Right here.” The rap goes, “I do know higher/however if you happen to wanna take me I might let ya,” over squishy electrical piano chords, sporadic bass-drum hits and a few tiny factor that’s simply rattling and clanking across the combine. The temper is a tossup: keen however nonchalant, defensive however reckless. PARELES

Turbulent love songs are in all places; serene ones are a lot rarer. Faye Webster’s “Lifetime” savors a way of permanence. The tempo is a really relaxed sway, piano and guitar commerce little trickling phrases, and a chamber orchestra gives discreet assist as Webster sings in a voice of bemused contentment, envisioning a lifelong connection. PARELES

There’s an eerie magnificence in “Once more,” the title observe from the most recent album by the digital experimentalist Oneohtrix Level By no means. The glitchy, wordless composition progresses by cycles of malfunction and decay — melodies appear to interrupt aside, revealing the ghosts within the machines. If HAL 9000’s dying scene in “2001: A Area Odyssey” makes you cry, this one’s for you. ZOLADZ

Reeds and violin explode in star bursts, over and once more. A pair of drummers push forward with a square-shouldered beat that might simply be lifted from a punk document, or from one among Junior Kimbrough’s electrical blues. Alongside them, the alto saxophonist, multimedia artist and self-described “sound quilter” Matana Roberts speaks from the attitude of an ancestor (or possibly many), placing phrases to the essential consciousness that the ladies of Robert’s line have carried. “How Prophetic” arrives early on “Coin Coin Chapter 5: Within the Backyard,” the most recent in a collection of albums exploring Roberts’s ancestry and inheritance, drawing from a mixture of archival materials, interviews with family members and the artist’s creativeness. On the finish of “How Prophetic,” Roberts recites a chorus which recurs throughout the album: “My title is your title, our title is their title, we’re named, we bear in mind, they neglect.” GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

The Nationwide ends “Snigger Observe,” its surprise-release second album of 2023, with “Smoke Detector,” an eight-minute stay recording that’s a spiral of desperation. The lyrics work by free associations, guarantees and pleas — “Why don’t you lay right here and hearken to distant sirens with me?” — whereas the band circles obsessively by 4 chords, falling and rising, with its guitars tangling and seething, gnashing and wailing. “You don’t understand how a lot I really like you, do you?” Matt Berninger finally asks, already understanding the unhappy reply. PARELES

Atka is the singer and songwriter Sarah Neumann, who was born in Germany however is now primarily based in London. In “Lenny,” she sings about making an attempt to avoid wasting a troubled man she nonetheless loves: “I want you, I all the time will,” she insists. She and her producer, Jung Kim from Gang of Youths, use frantically clattering percussion and an occasional pattern of church bells to rework what might have been a primary two-chord rocker into an emotional siege. PARELES

It takes over two minutes for any prescribed melody to kick in on “Zubot,” as you’ll be able to see clearly within the accompanying video, which animates Darius Jones’s written rating. However by the point his alto saxophone syncs up with James Meger’s bass, enjoying a zigzagging, key-jumping melody whereas cellos and violins scrub and scrape round them, every instrument within the group has discovered a option to outline itself. “Zubot” is the second of 4 actions in Jones’s new album-length suite, “Fluxkit Vancouver (It’s Suite however Sacred),” related equally to 12-tone modernism and free jazz and the Southern soul saxophone custom. RUSSONELLO