Sometimes a song doesn’t need to overcomplicate things to get your attention. On “Annyeonghaseyo,” Japanese/Korean rapper Yuki Chiba teams with Korean producer Lil Moshpit for a cross-cultural collaboration built around one of the most universally useful words: hello. Over Lil Moshpit’s stripped-down, bouncing production, Yuki turns the familiar Korean greeting into an infectious refrain, weaving in playful references to Korean culture along the way.

Leanne Morgan has made a career out of saying the things plenty of women are thinking but might not actually say out loud. In her second Netflix stand-up special, Unspeakable Things, the Tennessee comedian turns newfound fame, marriage, family and the indignities of everyday life into an hour that feels less like a performance than catching up with your funniest friend.

There’s something wonderfully hard to categorize about Pauline Frechette’s At The Edge Of Everything. Across seven tracks, the composer, pianist and vocalist moves between alternative jazz, neo-classical music and traditional pop, creating a record that can be intimate one moment and beautifully expansive the next.

On her third studio album, Do You Still Love Me? (10 Summers/Interscope Records), Ella Mai reunites with longtime collaborator Mustard, who executive-produced the 14-track collection and once again proves an ideal partner for her unmistakable brand of contemporary R&B.

Lukas Graham is getting back to where it all began on Good Times, his new 13-track album that trades some of the polished pop sheen for something warmer, earthier and deeply personal.

Nicole Zuraitis has never been afraid to put some truth into a song, but on The Devil I Knew (La Reserve Records), she goes considerably further. The two-time GRAMMY® winner turns the unraveling of a relationship into an ambitious 20-track concept album that unfolds across five interconnected movements, moving through heartbreak, accountability, grief, healing and, eventually, self-discovery.