This week’s best new songs roundup features Vince Staples’ Californicated rap-rock turn, The Clog’s folk-pop on goblin mode, and Chanel Beads’ alien, modulated angst.
The actor and singer attempts to thread an epic fantasy journey into her pleasant folk-pop sound for her fourth album, but tonal whiplash and navel-gazing songwriting stifle its conceptual ambition and technically assured production.