3 Must Hears 4 Fresh Ears
This week we’ve got grimy club jazz from an outré techno vet, eerie romance set to traditional Caribbean styles, Southern Gothic coming-of-age collage-rap, and more.
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Fine Dining But Make It Latin Trap
Plus: Veeze avoids the empty calories on his leaked-mixtape edit.
The Field's New Groove
How the surprisingly emotional use of an unusual time signature powers the ambient-techno god’s best track in years.
The One New Drake Song You Need to Hear
Plus Weird Al's weed stash, the next great young London art-rock band, and more.
Kiwi Lenderman and Copycat Extraordinaires
Plus: fretless guitar and funky drum machine jams from an Orthodox priest in coastal Greece.
Charli XCX and the Meaning of Rock Music
Plus podcast takes on “Hacks” actor Meg Stalter’s pivot to music and the new single by a band called the Rolling Stones.
Muna’s Must Hear Album Makes the Dire World a Little More Manageable
Plus: “Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock duo.”
The London Beatmaker Flipping YouTube Freestyles Into High Art
Plus: The existential debut of a rising Dominican pop star.
Lucy Dacus Makes More Than Just Sad Music
The singer-songwriter gets back to what she does best on a new single.
How Kehlani Does R&B Nostalgia Right
Plus: Kooky, cheeky art-rock and dreamy experimental pop from a med student.