Mariah the Scientist’s music is an experiment in self-examination .  The studio is her lab, a space where, over three projects, the former St. John’s biology major has dissected herself and her relationships from every angle. On Hearts Sold Separately , she rises from beneath the harsh glare of surgical lights that once exposed every wound and scar on songs like “Spread Thin” and “Beetlejuice” serving as case studies in emotional vulnerability. Here, she sutures the past and

Can your romantic history sentence you to imprisonment in the public eye? On “Is It A Crime,” Mariah the Scientist enlists Kali Uchis as...