Grace Ives specializes in building pop structures and then removing the piece that makes them stand up straight. Her synth-pop songs hop at odd angles, describing familiar trajectories with an unfamiliar gait—she can make a song about watching someone from afar sound unique. Janky Star, the name she’s chosen for her upcoming album, suggests this impression is intentional. The synths and patchy rhythms on her latest single, “Angel of Business,” punch straight out from the track, a series of middleweight jabs that land with surprising force. There’s a “you” in the lyrics—it might be Ives, a wayward friend, or a lover. But the chorus—“I think about you on the floor with your petticoat/You could really have the world, fix your appetite”—rings both affectionate and exasperated. It feels handwritten.