Listen to new releases from @iamelena, @adrianyounge & @AliShaheed, @eiht0eiht, @YoungChris, @dpat, @terrellgrice, @LunaEllemusic, #H31R, #SurpriseChef, @miriahworld, #Khalil, #Telemakus, @Goyagumbani, @KoloGG & @6ixwastaken, @nadineelroubii, #JONES, @MAKOGirls, #GDP, @chukathedstryr, @kaylaraemusic, #JonGreen, #TommiePhoenix, @natetaylorr_nj, #AMI, and #KZIA. Wednesday Roundups: shatterthestandards.com/p/we…

Backed by a live orchestra and Noah Conrad playing nearly everything else, Ashe plays every woman a man has dreamed up and makes a scene big enough to get the real one seen. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

Raised in a church choir, Khal!l turns its oldest reassurances on a woman he hasn’t told everything to, then carries them back to God, where they finally hold. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

Raised around her father’s sound system and her grandfather’s mento band, McDoom builds hushed folk songs on the dub engineer's gift for clearing space, and her debut is gorgeous and sure of itself. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

An East London rapper takes his dry, low-key voice into garage and two-step clubs and finds the dancefloor is the best room in the city for being alone with his own head. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

Amy Winehouse borrowed a girl-group sound from the early 1960s and filled it with the pubs, brand names, and bad nights of 2006 London, and it kept her songs from ever turning into a costume. Our Milestones review: shatterthestandards.com/p/mi…

A Crumlin singer brings her family and her Dublin postcode onto the house floor, turning a hometown’s pride into dance music built for the people who claimed her first. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

Terrell Grice keeps the come-ons and the waiting for his own voice and lends the heartbreak and the prayers to his guests, building a frank, generous R&B record. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

Adding seven new songs, Tierra Whack stacks puns on North Philadelphia street names and designer labels until the wordplay works as a demand for the respect she is owed and a place to keep her grief. Our commentary: shatterthestandards.com/p/bi…

Decades of answering to no label have left GDP free and mostly alone. Cross Off Matthew puts his own vanishing act under the same hard light he aims at the country. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…

Between a wedding oath and a late-night text, Vedo makes an excellent R&B album about what a man owes the woman he keeps. Our review: shatterthestandards.com/p/al…