Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Combine, and 9 Extra New Songs

The songs on Meshell Ndegeocello’s magnificent new album, “The Omnichord Real Book,” are all the time in flux. In its seven-and-half minutes, “ASR” hints at fusion jazz, Funkadelic, Ethiopian pop, reggae and psychedelia; the guitarist Jeff Parker, from Tortoise, teases the music ahead. As the track accelerates, Ndegeocello sings about ache, heartbreak, therapeutic and perseverance, and he or she vows, “We’re right here to set the clock to right here and now.” JON PARELES

Peggy Gou is a South Korean-born, Berlin-based D.J. and producer with a penchant for dreamy home beats and a velvety contact. Her newest single “(It Goes Like) Nanana” performs out a bit like her personal private remodeling of ATC’s ubiquitous 2000 hit “All Around the World,” however with a kinetic vitality that’s distinctly her personal. “I can’t clarify,” Gou sings over a thumping beat and light-weight piano riff, earlier than deciding she will be able to finest specific the sensation she needs to explain in nonsense phrases: “I suppose it goes like na na na na na na.” LINDSAY ZOLADZ

Doja Cat, ‘Attention’

Doja Cat returns with a vengeance on the menacing “Attention,” an announcement report that places her pop sensibility apart (no less than for now) and leans into her ample expertise as an M.C. “Look at me, take a look at me — you lookin’?” she begins, and for the following jiffy instructions the ground with charismatic grit. “Baby, for those who prefer it, simply attain out and pet it,” she sings on a hook that remembers ’90s R&B, albeit filtered by way of Doja’s alien sensibility. The verses, although, are pure venom: “Y’all fall into beef, however that’s one other dialog,” she spits with that signature hearth in her throat. “I’m sorry, however all of us discover it actually entertaining.” ZOLADZ

Killer Mike that includes Future, André 3000 and Eryn Allen Kane, ‘Scientists & Engineers’

Ambition and achievement, electronics and exaltation all determine in “Scientists & Engineers” from “Michael,” Killer Mike’s first solo album since he shaped Run the Jewels with El-P. “Scientists & Engineers” has 5 producers together with James Blake and No I.D. The observe pulsates with keyboard chords beneath the elusive André 3000 (from Outkast), who insists, “Rebelling is like an itch.” The music switches to silky guitar chords for Future, who sings, “It’s higher to be an outcast in a world of envious.” And a beat kicks in with lure drums and blipping synthesizers behind Killer Mike, who boasts in fast triplets: “I’m by no means chillin’, I gotta make thousands and thousands.” A multitracked Eryn Allen Kane wafts choirlike harmonies — and gospel-tinged sentiments like “I’mma reside endlessly” — whereas the rappers redefine themselves. PARELES

None apart from Fiona Apple determined to collaborate with Flesh Eater, a Nashville avant-pop group, on the mercurial seven-minute tour “Komfortzone.” Over a low, sputtering programmed beat and outbursts of noise and electronics, Flesh Eater’s lead singer, Zwil AR, sings hopscotching melodies harking back to Dirty Projectors. Apple sprinkles in some piano and finally provides vocal harmonies on refrains like “A area of sunflowers with their backs towards me/I’m on the practice.” It’s as willful as it’s arty. PARELES

Sparklehorse, ‘Evening Star Supercharger’

Mark Linkous was making his fifth album as Sparklehorse when he died by suicide in 2010. Now his household and a handful of collaborators have accomplished it, due for a September launch as “Bird Machine.” A preview single, “Evening Star Supercharger,” tops unhurried folk-rock with the tinkle of a toy piano, as Linkous cryptically however matter-of-factly considers mortality and melancholy: “Peace with out capsule, gun or needle or prayer seem/Never discovered typically close to however too fleet to be clear.” In the sky, he calmly watches a star going nova: “Even although she’s dying, getting bigger.” PARELES

Omah Lay, ‘Reason’

The Nigerian singer Omah Lay has break up his songs between partying and self-doubt; he has additionally been featured by Justin Bieber. “Reason,” from the newly expanded model of his 2022 album, “Boy Alone,” has minor chords and grim situations: “I don’t know who to run to proper now/Army is opening heavy hearth.” The beat is buoyant, however the tone is fraught. PARELES

A low-riding shuffle beat isn’t the Cuban-born pianist, composer and folklorist David Virelles’s most typical surroundings. But “Carta,” Virelles’s new LP, places him and his longtime first-call bassist, Ben Street, along with Eric McPherson, an innovator and tradition-bearer in immediately’s jazz drumming. This is the closest Virelles has come to creating a standard-format jazz trio album, although it’s nonetheless not precisely that. On the opener, “Uncommon Sense,” McPherson’s shuffle kicks in after 25 seconds of solo piano, and Virelles has already led issues down a tense path, altering keys capriciously whereas build up a basis for the Cubist phrase on the middle of the tune. McPherson’s elegantly splattered drum model, utilizing traditional grip to roll his rhythms out as near the bottom as doable, offers stable help to Virelles whereas he toys with contemporary-side influences: the bodily elocution of Don Pullen’s piano taking part in, the harmonic splintering and superimpositions of Craig Taborn, the rhythmic restraint of a Gonzalo Rubalcaba. You wouldn’t have to be instructed this album was recorded at Van Gelder Studio to understand it’s talking with jazz historical past — the vintage, the trendy and what’s barely come into form. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

Ben van Gelder, ‘Spectrum’

“Manifold,” a brand new album from the rising bandleader Ben van Gelder, celebrates the voice. The voice of his saxophone, the voice of the pipe organ, the human voice, the collective voice of an eight-piece band. Each has its personal grain. The organ has its personal distinguished side-narrative in jazz historical past, however the Amsterdam-based van Gelder is culling from a special stream, nearer to up to date classical composers like Arvo Pärt and György Ligeti, utilizing dissonance and area. The Veracruz-born vocalist Fuensanta sings no phrases on “Spectrum,” the album’s rangy centerpiece observe; she joins the horns, sounding virtually like one other reed instrument. Beneath them, Kit Downes toggles between minimalism and high-rising waves on the pipe organ. RUSSONELLO

Elliott Sharp, ‘Rosette’

The composer Elliott Sharp has been devising techniques of pitch and construction for the reason that Seventies. His newest album, “Steppe,” is impressed by geography. It’s music for six overdubbed classic electrical metal guitars, microtonally tuned and arrayed in stereo, exploring texture and resonance. “Rosette” is constructed from fast, cascading, staggered, overlapping little runs. It’s bell-toned and spiky, crumbling and reassembling. PARELES