Marcus Adetola

River Rojas’s “Lovergirl” plays like a lullaby beamed in from somewhere off-planet, all soft acoustic guitar and crooned vocals wrapped in trails of echo. It opens with a synth note held in the dark for close to nine seconds before the guitar and vocals arrive together, a strange, patient way to start a dream pop song that sets the pace for the four minutes that follow.

Piano and percussion carry “After All” at a steady, retro mid-tempo pace, warm and easy. Jepsen wrote it with Kyle Shearer, who also produced, and Nate Cyphert. It came out 16 July as the second single from Day and Night, Jepsen’s twenty-four track double album due 18 September on Interscope, split into “day” and “night” halves. “After All” is about how becoming a wife and mother reshapes a person’s sense of who they are.

A stadium roars “olé, olé, olé” every time a goal goes in, no lyric sheet required, no one needing the words explained. Kwengface, Young T and Bugsey have taken that exact chant and built a song called “Olé” around it, giving it verses without losing what made it work on the terraces first.