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Recent post-Voice releases include new songs from JessLee, Dylan Hartigan and LACES.

Here’s more about each of those releases.

The links take you to the songs on Apple Music.

JessLee from The Voice Season 14

* JessLee from Season 14 is back with a fine collaboration called “Part of Me,” featuring Radio Romance. Her Twitter handle is @jessleecountry, but JessLee has been on a roll with a series of excellent singles that are more pop-leaning, and “Part of Me” continues that trend. Jesslee co-wrote the song with Steve Virginia and Radio Romance’s Sam Hayes and Josh Gramling. She also produced the impressive track. “Coming from real experiences and feelings, the song just poured out of us in the writing room and it did again for me during production. It’s real and it’s powerful,” says JessLee.

LACES from The Voice Season 2

* LACES, who appeared on Season 2 as Charlotte Sometimes, has a new single called “Girlfriend.” Says LACES: “I wrote ‘Girlfriend’ as a celebration of who I am — as a treatise on how I love, and to give myself a chance to reflect on those teenage years that created the confident bi-sexual badass that I am today.” Meanwhile, LACES’ 2020 single “worship” now has nearly 400,000 streams on Spotify and is being featured on the final season of the Netflix series “Lucifer.”

Dylan Hartigan from The Voice Season 14

* Dylan Hartigan from Season 14 has an impressive new single out called “Gold Rush.” “I think this song is the absolute best song I’ve ever written,” says Dylan. “An amazing group of people put a lot of love, energy and care into this creation and I am eternally grateful to every last one of them.” It’s the fifth single this year from Dylan. Up next — an album, he says, though he hasn’t announced a release date.