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nahdoitagain’s ‘He Laughs at Things He is Confused About,’ and the Beauty of the Undefined
The 18-year-old Nigerian alternative R&B artist’s latest album asks you to inhabit the spaces between sounds, to get lost in layers and textures.

Moscow Puzzles’ ‘Vast Space of the Interior’ blazes a path to Rock ‘n’ Roll transcendence through repetition
Six-string blastoffs, galactic riffing, extra-planetary percussive explorations: the Iowa-based duo prefers an epic, drawn-out wrestling match with a musical motif.

Deantoni Parks takes cosmic jazz further into the stratosphere on ‘Stargate’
The renowned drummer and producer pushes his drums to the red signaling chaotic rides and his synths sound like air on other planets.

On ‘What A Life 2,’ JUNE! finds beauty in despair
The Charlotte-based artist and producer embodies a scepter of hope for an apocalyptic, dread-heavy generation.

96 Back’s ‘tender, exit’ sits between in and post-club music
With UK nostalgia lashings and dub’s haunting emotional chords, 96 Back created something that wants to take up space in all rooms.

In the Crowd: Rap Show! at vinyl index (NAHreally, Wave Generators, Esh & the Isolations, LDER)
The community this store has curated is constantly supportive, drawing massive crowds for a space that somehow expands to make them all—no matter how unfamiliar—feel perfectly at home.

RLX and LOMAN’s ‘Madon’’ is the sound of resilience
The Massachusetts-based duo crafted a rap album blending East Coast grit with modern sensibilities.

Interview with Seigfried Komidashi: the visionary artist who is an amalgation of his past, present, and future
“My musical identity is a chaotic patchwork of different points of reference… a way of forcing people to question what music is and where it can take us.”

On ‘Soft Echoes,’ Sharada Shashidhar takes you through a jazz adventure of the mind
The Los Angeles-based singer’s latest EP feels like one big survey of the surreal as it twists, turns, soothes, and shakes.

Interview: Starling’s ‘2324’ captures the shared moodiness of this fledgling band
“Making any piece of music that has to do with anything at all conceptually is nostalgia. It only ever is nostalgic.”