Shura: White Light

With much-adored heartache confessionals like “Indecision,” “Touch” and “2Shy” under her belt, UK-based singer-songwriter Shura switches things up a bit with her latest. “White Light” is a seven-minute jam that boosts the ’80s dance beats and post-rock licks, without losing any of the delicate emotion in her voice.

Dream Koala: Earth

21-year-old Brazilian electronic artist Yndi Ferreira, aka Dream Koala, becomes a helmet-fitted space explorer in the music video for his track “Earth“—and don’t let the title mislead you, as it’s an out-of-this-world journey into the beautiful unknown. Two minutes in, there’s an “Interstellar” wormhole-like sequence that fuses with Dream Koala’s escalating beats for a multi-sensory climax.

Quindar: Twin-Pole Sunshade

Quindar is a newly formed musical project between Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen and art historian James Merle Thomas (currently a postdoc scholar at USC). Their music, which remixes NASA’s audio and video archive, is a creative extension of Thomas’ research, which explores the connections between postwar American avant-garde art and NASA. The title song from their two-track EP “Twin-Pole Sunshade” walks listeners through NASA’s 1973 Skylab …