Ryan Dombal is a founder, writer, and editor at Hearing Things. He has two decades of music journalism experience, and was the longtime Features Editor at Pitchfork.
Plus a Must Hear album from a prolific ambient-rap stalwart, a lovelorn tribute to UK funky house, a frenetic hip-hop reunion, and Weezer's latest nostalgia grab.
Plus Must Hear experimental pop, emotive música Mexicana for the club, emo-pop to bring you out of your shell, and a follow up to an 11-year-old New Jersey hardcore hip-hop cult classic.
Plus bubbly nonchalant California rap, empowering UK R&B, North Indian classical singing mixed with space-jazz and post-rock, and an icy electronic debut from a new Cambridge duo
Plus a Detroit veteran's velour instrumental album, a Ghanaian-American pop star's kaleidoscopic mixtape, a digicore wunderkind's groovy new EP, and an indie rock stalwart's rage against the industry's little boxes
Plus an ultra-rare hi-fi audio collage, a dispatch from a rising Memphis rap star, and deconstructed footwork meant to approximate the chaos of the timeline
