Bakery Music’s grunge queen Ornaree is back in full force with her latest single “Sak Wan,” a teaser from her upcoming studio album. Once again it shows off her refreshingly hard and masculine sound, as vital now as it was back in her 90s heyday. This emotional ballad starts wistfully with a slow, steady drum beat, while Orn’s lyrics tell of a relationship that’s reached its end. As the sweet guitar lines come in there’s even room for a few lines sung in French before reaching a stirring conclusion.  

Surachai “Lek” Kijkasemsin, frontman of 90s rockers Proud, crept back into the spotlight in 2013, first with a low-key appearance at the Keep On The Grass festival in March, then with a gig at Parking Toys in September. Now that he’s on the production side of things, alt-pop mainstays Run Ran Run asked Lek to not only co-produce and arrange their new single, but also take on the lead vocals. The result is a wonderful throwback, with lyrics that fittingly refer to the old days. Despite the nostalgia, Lek’s sweet, measured vocals combine with the cheery backing track to make for a light and breezy listen.

While the members of alt-rock royalty Moderndog are seemingly never far from a concert lineup or a collaborative project, the trio hasn’t come out with any new material in ages. Finally, though, we get “O Ni Org,” the lead single from their upcoming sixth studio album. Moderndog fans need not have worried: despite frontman Pod’s recent dabblings in pop and May-T’s deeper excursions into post-rock, this is more of the hard-hitting rock that made you fall in love with the band in the first place.

Nawapol Thamrongratanarit’s much-anticipated Mary is Happy, Marry is Happy is already in theaters, and he’s invited artists to create works inspired by the original tweets that formed the basis of the film. Answering the call of the Mary Retweeted Project was energetic indie act Plot, whose “Mai Mee Arai Mai Took Yang Mang Kor Kao Mod” [There’s Nothing New, Everything is All the Same] is more of the adventurous rock we’ve come to love from the band. Sitting on the right side of experimental, this melodic single, with its marching beat and repetitive lyrics, has us seriously craving the band’s long-promised debut album.