The solid fifth album from people's diva, Keyshia Cole, Woman to Woman, is out this week and this song is its second single. She's singing her ass off, selling the cliché with the urgency of someone who has collection agencies on the other line. In another era, this would be a huge crossover smash — if not Cole's signature song, it would at least become her "I Have Nothing." Could still happen (anything is possible), but the chances of this going on to be a singing-competition staple are slight. Anthem ballads just don't sell like they used to. Prove me wrong, universe! Please.

Jessie Ware has released a trio of remixes of Devotion's downtempo, virtually chanted "No To Love." All are excellent, giving the song a needed kick in the ass, but my favorite is this slapsticky and frenetic rerub from New Jersey house vet Todd Edwards. Who says no to this?

This recent salute to disco-inflected yacht rock via DFA's Surahn has the contrived retroism of Instagram. Thus its fuzzy, washed-out video is perfect. It also sounds like the kind of music that I imagine the male line drawing from the original Joy of Sex would play, so the cover art for Surahn's upcoming EP is perfect.

Ne-Yo's fifth album, R.E.D., was released last Tuesday and sold about 66,000 copies its first week in stores. That's about 40 percent less than his last album, Libra Scale, did its first week out, and that album was considered a disappointment. While it breaks no new ground, it's a shame that R.E.D. will probably go forgotten, as it's a collection of well-sung and -written R&B that surveys and attempts to perfect the genre's current trends. One of the loveliest tracks is "Should Be You," a Salaam Remi-produced bit of hip-hop soul that knocks like it's '96 and reminds me the most of Mario Winans' excellent "I Don't Wanna Know." That is manages to be great despite a guest verse from Diddy is a feat in itself.

...In which Little Dragon's 2007 piano ballad "Twice" gets an atmospheric R&B makeover from Ohio's Freeze-Tag. This is a security blanket of a remake. Comforting.

The music of Norway's disco-and-then-some producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm is often designed to make people move, which falls in line with his own refusal to stay in one place for too long. In addition to sleek, spacey disco, he's dabbled in folky territory, he's done Kraut-y stuff and earlier this year he released an insane album, Six Cups of Rebel, that had the freaked-out maximalism of Parliament Funkadelic and/or a carnival.

Brooklyn's Midnight Magic is a nine-piece contemporary disco band, complete with a horn section and a theatrical frontwoman, Tiffany Roth, whose combination of chops and camp resembles an off off off Broadway Bette Midler. Their debut album, Walking The Midnight Streets, is out today (via a PledgeMusic donation) and includes their best-known song "Beam Me Up," which has knocked around for over a year, though it sounds like it's been decades.

This is an understatement in terms of what's happening outside and it's a love song, anyway, but I don't know — it seems pretty appropriate regardless.

I had no idea that the person that I dismissed immediately upon hearing the sundresscore "Put Your Records On" was capable of soul so gut-wrenching. This reminds me of Isaac Hayes without all the sonic humidity or maybe Portishead invoking Isaac Hayes. Whatever, it's an absolute highlight of the vintage soul-obsessed The Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack, which was exec. produced by Wu-Tang Clan's RZA.

M83 have released the video for "Steve McQueen," off their year-old Hurry Up, We're Dreaming album. The fan-directed video is the winner of a contest the band held. That's some smooth movement from the inanimate toys that glide around video — impressive for a non-professional clip.

Frequent Jean Grae and Pharoahe Monch collaborator Mela Machinko has devised the most reverent Jay-Z tribute since Destiny's Child's "Cater 2 U." Her Hov Said It Best project "uses Jay-Z lyrics, concepts and even ad libs and cadences to craft entirely new songs that tell my stories. On the project, Hov Said It Best is a television show, sort of a This Is Your Life game show, but based on Jay Z, and I am the day's contestant on the show."

Over Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet" beat, the 21-year-old Angel Haze tells us, "This might get a little personal, or a lot actually..." She then proceeds to recount years of sexual abuse in detail like I've never heard in a hip-hop song. She talks explicitly about being raped at 7 and then goes on and on ("See, it was weird because I felt like I was losing my mind and then it happened like it happened like a million of times"). Her clarity is riveting, her insight on her abuse's effects is harrowing. At the end of the track, she runs down reasons for revealing what she just did, which silences any question of whether this is self-exploitation for the sake of grabbing attention (even if it stopped at the 3-minute mark, I wouldn't interpret it as such, but you know how people are).

This has been floating around for a while, the Sudanese-born musician Ahmed Gallab (Sinkane) just played a slew of CMJ shows, his impossibly terrific debut Mars is out tomorrow on DFA and this particular track is the best theme for a '70s blaxploitation movie that never was that I've ever heard.

In veteran synth-pop act Saint Etienne's icy spin on El Perro Del Mar's "Walk on By," there are two explicit references: the track interpolates a refrain of Massive Attack's perfect 1991 single "Unfinished Sympathy" and there are snatches of Dorian Corey's era-defining speech that concludes Paris Is Burning ("If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you"). For sheer rarity, the Massive Attack reference is a little more knowing/unexpected — I feel like so many tracks work in Paris Is Burning samples. Yet, there's always room for Dorian. Her wisdom was so vast it continues to resound.

Remember how "Trapped in the Closet" ended five years ago? Me neither. I barely remember what happened at all, but whatever, it's back — on Nov. 23, IFC will broadcast a bunch of new chapters. R. Kelly has released the first of the new batch, Chapter 23, in advance. I know that the series quickly unraveled into goofiness, revealing itself as intentional camp instead of the more engaging ambiguous strain of the sensibility. It went from "Is it or isn't it?" to, "Oh...it is" way too fast.

The concept of Matmos' The Ganzfeld EP, on which "Very Large Green Triangles" appears, is complicated. This is from its press release:

Gawker fav Twin Shadow goes at this remix of New York band MS MR's "Hurricane" like Nicki Minaj attacks a guest verse, cramming as much entertainment value into his limited space as possible. Within the endlessly shifting track, there's still plenty of space, too. Amazing. All Twin Shadow everything from now on, please.

The debut single from neo-disco supergroup Shock (featuring members of Windsurf, Sorcerer, and Rubies) is kinda deliberate and kinda nasty, like the hooker sister of porn star Andrea True's "More, More, More." This is perfect sleaze.

This Prince/Roger Troutman salute from two people who are steadily leaving the shadows of their former group associations has been circulating for about a week, but it's finally commercially available. Everyone is doing their job really well on it!

This blissed- and dubbed-out take on VanShe's "Jamaica" by 57-year-old dub veteran Mad Professor is reminiscent of Larry Levan's similarly dubby work with Gwen Guthrie (see "Seventh Heaven"), if not exactly in sound then certainly in effect. Gorgeous either way.