With each fresh year in pop music comes the hope that there will be new sounds, new ideas, new styles, and new artists leading the charge to make the field even more wild and expansive than it already is.

For 2019, the pop music critics for The New York Times took on the task of identifying several promising young talents. The results include British punk-rap, morbid electronic pop, breezy 1970s-influenced country, colorful Puerto Rican hip-hop and club music with roots in the Andes.

On this week’s Popcast: