The Seshen, courtesy.

New tracks from The Seshen, Chxrry22, Colouring, Shabazz Palaces, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, The Church, Pile and ISOxo with Ninajirachi cover the gamut from electronic soul to R&B, alt-pop, hip-hop, “sasscore” and EDM.

The Seshen, “Hold Me” — Bay Area collective The Seshen delivers a synth-heavy mid-tempo groove driven by rootsy beats and melded together with silky vocals. The intro pulls you in with a hypnotic bass loop and snappy percussion. Singer Lalin St. Juste’s warm, breathy vocals have a lazy cadence that melts like butter. A dreamy breakdown awaits at the other side of the groove, filled with vocal loops against an echo chamber of reverb-heavy synths and a beat drop.

The song is about St. Juste rebuilding a relationship with her ex-husband (and bandmate) Akiyoshi Ehara. The video is an eclectic collection of performance clips and candid moments. The Seshen kicks off a tour on Oct. 20 at New Parish in Oakland.

Chxrry22, “MORE” — Singer Chxrry22 is the first female member signed to The Weeknd’s XO label and has been building a following since her 2022 alt-R&B debut album, The Other Side. The Toronto native even grew up on the same street a him. The Ethiopian Canadian singer, whose name is Lydia Habtemariam, seems destined for success with her boss and powerhouse producer Mike Dean backing her.

“MORE” features the best of current R&B: seamless production, beats, breakdown and fresh, relatable lyrics preaching women taking power and control in relationship dynamics amid the constant pressure of male domination. Starting with a muted bass loop, Chxrry22’s lower soprano voice wavers back and forth between breathy, ethereal and stronger power punches, all weaving seamlessly to the mid-tempo groove.

The breakdown recalls Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature”—yet another element adding to this catchy, danceable tune.

Colouring, “Lune” — If you like melancholy, piano-driven pop ballads a la Coldplay, this is a song for you. U.K. artist Jack Kenworthy describes the song as being a “message of togetherness between two people during adversity and how you prop each other up with the other feels weak.” The intro starts off with a dubstep beat paired with mid-tempo piano chords reminiscent of Bruce Hornsby and The Range, with pleasant tenor vocals in a masculine, whispery drawl.

Shabazz Palaces featuring Royce The Choice, “Binoculars” — This is the first track by hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces in three years. And it just happens to precede a new EP, Robed In Rareness, due Oct. 27. Led by Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets) and featuring his son, Lil Tracy, this outfit’s latest single also features bar by Seattle’s Royce The Choice.

It’s grimy, with a chorus played in reverse and hard-hitting 808 bass, and lyrics boasting and battling to show off how saucy and savage these artists are. The pleasure comes in listening to how each member smoothly lays out his superior lyricism skills while flowing to the trance-inducing beat. Example: “Life is gonna test you and stress you/ The struggle will bless you/ Life is my pleasure, I’m special.”

SeeYouSpaceCowboy, “Chewing The Scenery” — This hardcore track will get you heart racing. Taking its moniker from anime “Cowboy Bebob,” the San Diego band shouldn’t be confused for screamo. It defines its metal-like driving bass lines and screechy vocals as “sasscore.”

The buildup to the chorus is phenomenal, with distorted guitar, masculine vocals, machine gun drumming. This builds to a metal chorus, with driving bass and screamed vocals. The breakdowns are epic, shifting several times. Really, it sounds like a mashup of death metal, punk, ska and alt-rock. SeeYouSpaceCowboy plays Sacramento’s Aftershock Festival on Oct. 5 and at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz on Oct. 8.

The Church, “Realm of Minor Angels” — This single is a bonus track from the deluxe edition of The Hypnogogue. It’s slow and evokes sad memories of loves gone by, aided along by the raspy voice of frontman Steve Kilbey. The dreamy instrumentation is composed of layers of lightly distorted guitar over mandolin. Kilbey’s echoing voice is as spellbindingly haunting as it was on “Under The Milky Way.”

Pile, “Scaling Walls” — Militaristic drumming and moody guitar strumming join plaintive, introspective vocals on this reflective rock track.

“Slowly claws at walls of blue/ Sinking even though it’s fast as I can move/ Lights marble bright above me/ The shapes get small and there’s nowhere to land,” Rick Maguire sings. The Boston band, plays at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on Sept. 26.

ISOxo and Ninajirachi, “SHYPOP” — San Diego producer ISOxo is joined by Ninajirachi on this energetic dance track, full of breakbeats, samples and techno elements. Ninajirachi’s candy-sweet vocals add a K-pop-like element to a mid-tempo build that’s sped up and slowed down several times. The danceable tune transitions through a variety of EDM subgenres, adding in bits of drum-and-bass, techno and dubstep before winding down to an anticlimactic, muted ending.

Mel’s pick: The relaxed, reggae-like song by The Sheshen goes perfectly with the waning days of summer. Warm and breezy, it’s just right for the hot days and cool nights of the Bay Area.

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