JOHN DORIAN, Daniel Eagle & The Uncommon, Diver Through & AnnaBelle Swift new this week!

JOHN DORIAN sets a relationship’s uncertainty inside the chamber textures of “TWO SWANS”. Produced by Michael Beinhorn, the Brooklyn songwriter’s ballad gathers piano, violin, fretless bass, guitar and layers of synthesizers around a vocal account of separation and enduring attachment. Anthony “Rocky” Gallo engineered the recording at Virtue & Vice Studios. The writing moves through rain, an unlit home and the thought of two people left alone, holding regret alongside a love that changes without disappearing.

Dov Mansky’s piano and Joseph O’Keefe’s violin and orchestrations give that emotional setting its instrumental vocabulary, with Sirintip Phasuk adding background vocals. Dorian supplies vocals, synths and electronic treatments, bringing a post-punk sensibility into a more intimate frame. The song stays with the difficulty of carrying someone’s presence after the shape of a relationship has shifted.

Muted trumpet and resonant piano give “Next Time It Rains” its colour. Daniel Eagle & The Uncommon start with a solemn lament for the change of season, letting the arrangement build until the final chorus carries the full weight of the band. Eagle’s gravelly vocal keeps the song at a human scale even as the music grows around it.

Eagle is the songwriter in the Southampton seven-piece, whose players bring different musical backgrounds to their arrangements. Here, the quieter textures leave space for a voice that sounds close and unguarded, with the air of a conversation. The larger chorus gives that feeling the force of an alternative rock ballad. The rain stays in the picture as the arrangement makes room for the darker feelings a change of season can bring.

Diver Through took a dozen or so songs into Vinegar Hill Sound in Brooklyn and left with five for I Want to Be Disrupted. Michael Baynes, bassist Mikey Clams and drummer Ken Nasta recorded together over two days in May, with the vocal and guitar parts sharing the room with the rhythm section. They kept the takes free of overdubs, vocal tuning and drum replacement, and left the timing alone.

The approach recalls the one-night session that became Diver Through’s first EP in 2013. There’s room here for the band’s dreamy strain of indie rock, even with three musicians working to the same clock. “It’s the Sky” opens the set and the title track follows. That leaves the small changes in feel to the three people playing together.

AnnaBelle Swift sings the same question three times at the close of “Two Different People,” first high, then low, then somewhere between. The singer-songwriter connects that last register to an effort to bring the different versions of herself together. The middle pitch gives the question a different place to sit in the voice. “Do you feel like two different people?”

Swift wrote the song in the shower on an emotional day. The verses came in order, a departure from the way her songs usually develop. She cites Alanis Morissette’s confessional writing as an influence. The accompanying dance video credits VanessaDanceOfficial for its choreography. In Swift’s song, the public and private selves stay present as the voice changes register. The refrain gives them something to say together and leaves the listener with the question.