Aqueous metaphors and blurry-edged synthesizers define two new songs that preview the next album by Laetitia Tamko, the smoky-voiced songwriter who records as Vagabon; it’s due in October. Both songs are about relationships lingering too long. In “Flood,” she longs for a new start without an ex-partner, lamenting, “Even if I run from it, I’m still in it” in a march with reluctance built into its beat. Meanwhile, in “Water Me Down,” blippy synthesizers and a subdued four-on-the-floor beat carry mixed messages about an unexpected entanglement: “Never meant for you to love/never meant for you to trust,” she notes, but she’s not sure about breaking free. JON PARELES

Pusha T featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, ‘Coming Home’

Pusha T featuring Kash Doll, ‘Sociopath’

For Pusha T, poet laureate of drug-dealer lore, the sins of the past are an opportunity for reflection and also celebration. So his two new songs walk parallel roads. “Sociopath,” with a low, mean and skeletal Kanye West beat — is a love story between outlaws: “All she know, if it’s my hands, it’s pie hands/All she want is the monograms and my bands.” And “Coming Home,” a collaboration with Ms. Lauryn Hill, has the lightness of gospel: “Now it’s jail poses and club pictures, airbrush backdrops and jail visits/This the dope boy song for the dope boys gone/Let ’em know it’s still snowing.” On the first one, he’s sneering and seething; on the second, he’s lost in reverie. Both are true. CARAMANICA