The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.

NEW ALBUMS

Sofi Tukker, “Wet Tennis” (Ultra/Sony Music)

万众瞩目的大二学生从两个专辑time Grammy-nominated electro pop duo establishes them as a bona fide force in worldly electronic music. Singer Sophie Hawley-Weld once again sings in both English and in Portuguese, while she and co-producer/vocalist Tucker Halpern keep crafting an intercontinental sound.

Their spirit and purpose as musicians comes together as amazingly as ever on the unifying anthem “Mon Cheri,” featuring Mali’s Amadou & Mariam. The album’s title is an acronym for “When Everyone Tries to Evolve, Nothing Negative Is Safe,” which proves a mantra for embracing pleasure and self-discovery.

The duo plan to bring their fiery onstage energy back to the Bay Area during a headlining performance at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on June 16.

Toro y Moi, “Mahal” (Dead Oceans)

The seventh studio album from Berkeley’sChaz Bear, better known as Toro y Moi, sees the musical chameleon exploring new sonic highways inspired by the sounds of 1960s and ’70s global psychedelia. He’s brought together a host of guest collaborators like Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s RubanNielson, Alan Palomo of chillwave band Neon Indian and Oakland space-soul singer Salami Rose Joe Louis. The resulting songs, like “The Loop,” all feel like riding in Bear’s jeepney through the breezy pockets of the Bay Area that inform his experience as a half-Black, half-Filipino musical polymath.

Kehlani, “Blue Water Road” (Atlantic)

The third album from Kehlani places the Oakland School for the Arts alum further up the totem pole of today’s biggest R&B stars.

While theirfirst two albums reached the top three of the Billboard 200 chart, sticky and sensual singles like “Altar” and “Little Story” will give “Blue Water Road”a good shot at reaching No. 1.

Mostly produced by Pop Wansel (Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Ariana Grande), the albumfeatures guest appearances from Blxst, Syd, Thundercat, Jessie Reyez and Ambré, as well as Justin Bieber (their collaboration “Up at Night” recently made The Chronicle’s “Song of the Moment”).

Trombone Shorty, “Lifted” (Blue Note)

Perhaps the most famous trombone player in the world, Trombone Shorty has dedicated his new albumto his mother, who died last year, and it’s a cathartic and exuberant collection of songs.

Every note that the New Orleans musician puts down oozes with the soul andvibrancy of the Big Easy. Singer Lauren Daigle joins him on the spirited “What It Takes,” while guitarist Gary Clark Jr. (on “I’m Standing Here”) and the New Breed Brass Band (on “Everybody in the World”) are also on board for the ride.

With “Lifted,” Shorty says he was looking to channel his vivacious live shows, and you can compare for yourself when he comes to the Bay Area for stops at Saratoga’s Mountain Winery on Aug. 11 and Napa’s Oxbow River Stage on Aug. 12.

Röyksopp, “Profound Mysteries” (Dog Triumph)

After a prolific run of nearly 25 years, the Norwegian electronic production duo of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland are putting out what might be their most ambitiousproject to date.

“Profound Mysteries” is a conceptual endeavorthat features a number of collaborations with distinguished visual artists. So when the group released the rhythmic, pulsating single “Breathe,” with vocalist Astrid S, it also released the accompanying mind-bending “I Hate My Shelf” short film with Swedish director Andreas Nilsson. There have been a series of imaginative and often macabre films released through the “Profound Mysteries” web portal, and a very cool augmented reality Instagram filter based on theproject’s trefoil logo. All in all,it’s a comprehensive take on the convergence of music, art and technology that is best taken in as a complete audiovisual package.

SONG OF THE MOMENT

Florence + The Machine, “Free” (Universal)

The grandiose “Free” is the fourth single from the band’s forthcoming fifth album, “Dance Fever” (due out May 13), and it’s very much about getting the listener to let loose, jump up and move to the music.

But there’s a double meaning to the feeling of being “free” that frontwoman Florence Welch sings about. The song’s video was filmed last year in Ukraine, and Welch,an outspoken supporter of the war-torn nation’s right to freedom, dedicated the song to the country. She tries passionately to harness the power of music to help unify and liberate the world, singing over an intense arrangement of strings and drums, “I hear the music, I feel the beat. And for a moment, when I’m dancing, I am free.”

LOCALLY MINDED

Caitlin Cobb-Vialet, “Endless Void” (War Chant)

If San Francisco singer and multi-instrumentalist Caitlin Cobb-Vialet reminds you of Regina Spektor, then your ears are working. Cobb-Vialet is a graduate of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and her lyricism certainly feels theatrical as she bangs away at a grand piano singing, “Everything is complicated, except maybe your shoulders, when I hold them with my hands, it’s like the first time that I’m touching you,” on “Ask Me.” There’s also an Andrew Bird-like dramedy built into her songwriting that makes you smile and reverberate with emotion.

“As an artist I would say I am non-linear,” she said in a statement, “emotional, brutally honest, and relentless.”