Put a Seashell to Your Ear
Plus Vince Staples’ rock album, Death Cab’s comeback, and Must-Hear Mexican R&B
Album Review
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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.
Fine Dining But Make It Latin Trap
Plus: Veeze avoids the empty calories on his leaked-mixtape edit.
Kiwi Lenderman and Copycat Extraordinaires
Plus: fretless guitar and funky drum machine jams from an Orthodox priest in coastal Greece.
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.
How Kehlani Does R&B Nostalgia Right
Plus: Kooky, cheeky art-rock and dreamy experimental pop from a med student.
Find Trent Reznor in the Club
Plus 1970s Congolese funk that sounds like it went through a meat pulverizer!
The Most Expansive Pop Minds Working Hit the Desert for a Jam Sesh
Dijon's eight-man band takes Coachella. Plus: a low-key rapper/producer with more lore than a Greek myth.
Bon Iver's Religious Non-Religious Music
Plus: Two electronic geniuses' surprising collab, a beloved bass virtuoso gets lost, and more.
Fizzy House Beats for Going Outside
Plus: Robyn bravely goes deep into the heart of sexistentialism.
Grace Ives Goes for the Fences
Plus: everyone's favorite Argentine pop-tricksters, an album that's like minimal techno for orchestra, and more.