Queer Reggaetón Mexa and Cerebral Dutch Twee
Plus, an experimental scene veteran drops a suite of communal optimism and a promising young upstart conjures 808s and indie-rock riffs.
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we review a handful of new records catching our attention. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s happening now. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
Most of this week’s artists rely on spontaneity as their north star—improvisation, experimentation, first-thought-best-thought brain explosions—but one Dutch duo here lives by the wise, dry philosophy: “I don’t feel any urge to innovate at all, but I also don’t feel the need to imitate anything.” Art requires multitudes, we’ll take it all.
