The 20-year-old pop phenom Olivia Rodrigo extends her successful streak on “Unhealthy Concept Proper?,” the most recent motive to be very enthusiastic about her second album, “Guts,” due Sept. 8. Departing from the sound of the album’s first single, the rock-operatic “Vampire,” “Unhealthy Concept Proper?” is a vibrant, kaleidoscopic head-rush of a pop music that inhales a dizzying array of influences — the chatty call-and-response hooks of ’60s woman teams, the gum-smacking sass of Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” the chugging guitars and elastic bass strains of early aughts pop-punk — and spits all of them out in Rodrigo’s singularly conversational voice. “Seeing you tonight,” she sings of an ex, “It’s a nasty concept, proper?” Then she shrugs, mutters an expletive with sharp comedian timing, and dives again into the mess. It’s a playful monitor, however there’s additionally one thing invitingly intimate about the best way Rodrigo places the frenzy of her personal inner ideas and emotions on show right here. (“My mind goes ‘ahhhhh,’” sings a multi-tracked refrain of Rodrigos.) A lady’s received to make her personal errors, in spite of everything. But when the listener is ready to listen in on her inner dialogue, she’s by no means utterly alone. LINDSAY ZOLADZ

The Chicago-based rapper Noname — Fatimah Nyeema Warner — wraps contentious positions in clean grooves and high-speed, rhythmically adept wordplay on her third album, “Sundial,” her first since 2018. “The entire world is culpable/Why complacency float the boat essentially the most?” she asks in “Namesake.” The music additionally gleefully assaults headliners of Tremendous Bowl halftime reveals as “propaganda for the army.” With a smile in her voice, Noname raps, “Go Rihanna go — watch the fighter jet fly excessive/Battle machine will get glamorized.” However then she calls herself out for taking part in Coachella this yr: “I mentioned I wouldn’t carry out for them/And in some way I nonetheless fell in line,” she admits. Careers are sophisticated. PARELES

Fred once more.. that includes Obongjayar, ‘Adore U’

Sheer affection programs by means of “Adore U.” The prolific dance-music producer Fred once more.. surrounds and destabilizes the home thump with shimmering digital syncopations, airborne sustained strains, uneven chords and looped vocal interjections. It’s a dizzying backdrop for the Nigerian-British singer Obongjayar, who croons his praises — “You stroll by means of life identical to a dancer” — in a tremulous falsetto; he sounds awe-struck. PARELES

Miguel that includes Lil Yachty, ‘Quantity 9’

Miguel builds a monumental enigma in “Quantity 9.” Over a stark however triumphal digital march, he overdubs his voice into antiphonal choirs, buying and selling lyrics like “Within the gun a kiss/Let it blow your thoughts/Until the mud returns/To the quantity 9.” Lil Yachty arrives halfway by means of to announce “I’m the grim reaper.” Neither one sounds daunted by mortality. PARELES

“I haven’t been on a date since I used to be 22,” Kelsea Ballerini sings in “How Do I Do This” — an arena-country music, with programmed drums and reverberating chords, about beginning over regardless that she’s “afraid of trying silly.” The music elevates the awkward, in-between moments, then stops useless simply as one thing would possibly start. PARELES

Ian Candy, ‘Your Spit’

A crush-struck Jill Medford — who information as Ian Candy — crafts an infectious, barely gross hook on her newest single, which can seem on her upcoming album “Sucker”: “Kiss me such as you imply it, kiss me such as you’re leaving,” she sings. “Your spit tastes totally different.” Medford’s dreamy, sing-songy vocals dance atop the music’s driving digital beat and squelching synths, giddily evoking recent infatuation. ZOLADZ

Religion Healer, ‘I’m a Canine’

On “I’m a Canine,” the most recent single from the Canadian dream-pop duo Religion Healer’s forthcoming album “The Hand that Suits the Glove,” Jessica Jalbert wryly confesses her baser natural instincts in an incongruously serene voice. “You may attempt to wash me if I’m soiled within the yard,” she sings because the music proceeds at a stately, parade-like tempo, “I’ll get into the kitchen and I’ll rip the trash aside.” ZOLADZ

The Canadian songwriter Ora Cogan revisits an eerie Celtic conventional music, “Katie Merciless,” a few girl scorned as her magnificence fades. “Once I first got here to city/They known as me the roving jewel,” she sings. “Now they’ve modified their tune/They name me Katie Merciless.” She and her band entwine the melody with modal guitar curlicues and distant vocals, but in some way she sounds extra alone than ever. PARELES

thanks for coming, ‘Loop’

Rachel Brown, who’s half of the duo Water From Your Eyes, has been recording solo since highschool as thanks for coming, and “Loop” is from an EP due in September. There’s multiple loop in “Loop,” a waltz that resigns itself to an obsessive, unequal romance: “I such as you higher/However you’re by no means mine,” Brown sings. The monitor is an ever-thickening tangle of guitar, bass, piano and vocal strains over a stubbornly off-kilter drum loop. Brown is aware of that recognizing a sample doesn’t break freed from it. PARELES