HIP-HOP/R&B

Cardi B, "Like What (Freestyle)"

Cardi B offers a fiery status update on her latest single. Atop a slinky beat that samples the 1999 Timbaland-produced Missy Elliott hit "She's a Bitch," Cardi puts the haters in their place ("It's your birthday, but they talking 'bout me") and brags humorously about her latest money moves ("I'm rich, I ain't getting in a pool that's not heated"). Is this another one-off, or could it be the first taste of the long-awaited follow-up to Cardi's 2018 debut album "Invasion of Privacy"? A title card at the end of the Offset-directed music video is promising: "This is just the beginning … stay tuned."

LINDSAY ZOLADZ, New York Times

POP/ROCK

Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus, "Doctor (Work It Out)"

Lots of well-used double entendres — doctor and nurse, workout coach, slipping and sliding — return in a thoroughly calculated but still fun collaboration that puts Williams' funk and disco expertise behind Cyrus' knowing voice: "Just show me where it hurts," she advises. Some impulses are eternal.

JON PARELES, New York Times

Bully, "Atom Bomb"

The grungy music that Alicia Bognanno [who grew up in Rosemount, Minn.] releases as Bully usually pairs her corrosive voice with towering, distorted guitar, but she opts for a much simpler arrangement on the piano-driven single "Atom Bomb." In such a minimal atmosphere, Bognanno's vocal performance takes center stage, its every crack and blister spotlighted to wrenching effect. "I lied, I never tried to quit," she sings to a faraway loved one during the devastating finale. "I just couldn't get the hang of it."

LINDSAY ZOLADZ, New York Times

Molly Lewis, "On the Lips" (Jagjaguwar)

Lewis' extraordinary talent of whistling has taken her to unlikely places, from Dr. Dre's studio to covering Billie Eilish on the "Barbie" soundtrack. It's all culminated in her debut LP. "Lips" is a sly wink at midcentury jazz and exotica, mood music that's more moving than you might expect. It will probably put her in front of much bigger audiences that don't know what her ubiquitous yet unexpected instrument is capable of. Tracks like "Lounge Lizard" and "Crushed Velvet" have the gentle class of Chet Baker (one of Lewis' heroes) and feel as welcoming as a sunken conversation pit in the living room. Some, like a sashaying cover of Jeanette's "Porque Te Vas," are impeccably stylish, others like "The Crying Game" are implacably melancholy. With "Lips," Lewis has a definitive statement of her rare and delightful craft.

AUGUST BROWN, Los Angeles Times

New releases

• Ariana Grande, "Eternal Sunshine"

• Ye and Ty Dolla $ign, "Vultures Vol. 2″

• Bleachers, "Bleachers"

• Norah Jones, "Visions"

• Kim Gordon, "The Collective"

• Judas Priest, "Invincible Shield"

• The Jesus and Mary Chain, "Glasgow Eyes"