Augustine’s “Picking Up Speed” evokes the warm, comfortable melancholia of a new love considered in the reflection of a bus window; not sad, but deeply emotional in a way that almost brings tears to your eyes for reasons you’re not sure you can explain.

His voice warbles in falsetto over the embrace of the song’s lush, synthy backdrop; Augustine fears that...

Elli Moore doesn’t mean to come off like she’s emotionless, and yet her disaffection inevitably finds itself at home on her single “Stomach.” Despite the strong feelings she attempts to relate through the lyrics, it does not appear that prosody is one of this song’s great strengths. Her vocal delivery is muted and playing cool, constrained by plastic pop...