Hailing from New Zealand, singer Marlon Williams infuses his pop-inflected song “My Boy” with Maori strums and a new backing band.

“The urge to turn every song on the planet into a Māori strummer descended on me like a fever sometime during the long and winding tour cycle of ‘Make Way for Love,’” Williams says. “So writing it into my artistic life became the only way to get the fever to lift.”