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In a blink of the cosmic eye, Lucy Liyou has moved mountains in the ever-emerging ecosystem of contemporary experimental pop. The Philadelphia-based, Korean-American sound artist put out two phenomenal projects before their 23rd bithday. 2020's sprawling, free-associative Welfare and 2021's more focused and fully formed Practice are both masterpieces in their own right, earning Liyou consistent mentions in the rarified company of scene leaders Elysia Crampton, Claire Rousay, and Klein.

Channel Tres has been defying the prescribed boundaries of dance music and hip-hop since his self-titled debut EP dropped in 2018. The Compton producer/rapper has since collaborated with upper-crust artists of both forms, from Tyler to Baauer, Peggy to Disclosure, and beyond — broadening his horizons still further last summer and fall on tour with Thundercat.

New York-based experimental R&B artist Yaya Bey has unveiled Remember Your North Star, her poignantly-titled third full-length album out on June 15. It's also her first for the esteemed label Big Dada, recently relaunched to focus on marginalized and racialized artists.

A24's X — a slasher flick directed by Ti West and starring Kid Cudi, Mia Goth, Jenny Ortega, and Brittany Snow — comes to theaters nationwide next Friday, March 18. Today, the studio announced that the film's official Chelsea Wolfe score will drop a week later.

Chicago rap superstar Lil Durk returns with his seventh solo album a year after releasing The Voice of the Heroes, his full-length collaboration with Lil Baby. 7220 features Gunna, Summer Walker, and more, and Durk will tour the record this year.

Jenny Hval is one of the English language’s greatest musical manipulators. Her ability to express both abstract ideas and visceral impulses through song is even more impressive considering English is her second language. Born in Norway’s southern bible belt — an austere and stifling cultural landscape she describes in harsh detail in her latest novel, Girls Against God — she left as soon as she could.

Violinist Adam Markiewicz and harpist Marilu Donovan (LEYA) make amorphous, ambient avant-pop that sounds unlike anything else. On Friday, they shared Eyeline, a mixtape featuring collaborators from across the organized sound spectrum: Julie Byrne, Okay Kaya, Actress, claire rousay, Deli Girls, James K, Sunk Heaven, and Martha Skye Murphy all join the duo.

The London rock artist has had a vibrant run of singles from her sophomore project, out today. PAINLESS features "stabilise," "midnight sun," "anotherlife," and "the dealer." “It's a record about emotion,” Yanya said in a press release.

Maria Chiara Argirò has announced a forthcoming album, Forest City, and shared its second single, "Bonsai." In the past decade, Argirò has pushed to the forefront of two disparate jazz fusion scenes — first in her native Rome and then in London, where she currently resides. When she started out, there were few women jazz players in her city, but she didn't let that hold her back.

Carmen Villain's past decade in music has seen her travel, simultaneously, deep into her emotional core and far into the outer reaches of the cosmos. Her fourth album, Only Love From Now On — released today and preceded by two singles, "Gestures" and "Subtle Bodies" — transcends such temporospatial binaries to achieve a sublime state that is at once organic and otherworldly.

The new project from Atlanta's EarthGang got a bit delayed by sample clearance issues, but it's here today with a J.I.D. feature to make up for the blown release date.

André 3000, Mitski, David Byrne, Moses Sumney and more acts feature on the soundtrack for the new A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once.Son Lux have scored the sci-fi action film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film is released in the US on March 25 (UK date TBA), while the soundtrack lands on April 8.Mitski and Byrne duet on a song called ‘This Is A Life’, while André 3000 plays flute across the record. Other contributions come from Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, Nina Moffitt, Chris Pattishall, Rob Moose, yMusic, Surrija, and actor Stephanie Hsu.Son Lux shared a statement about their work on the project: “Even though we knew from the moment Daniels asked us to score this film that it would push us in new and unexpected directions, we couldn’t have predicted how much we’d learn from the project.“What emerged was our most ambitious undertaking to date, over two years in the making, resulting in two hours of new music.

HEALTH and Lamb of God make for a fearsome duo on "Cold Blood," a gargantuan collaboration between the L.A. trio and the metal band.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor founder and guiatrist Efrim Menuck has officially released the band's iconically mysterious 1993 debut tape, All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling. The project, released in a limited run of 33 cassettes, was a Smile for the internet age — a rare treasure potentially lost to the ether, famously commanding a multi-terrabyte bounty on What.CD that was never paid out.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have shared their first tape in full.The group first released ‘All Lights Fucked On The Hairy Amp Drooling’ in 1993. It was dubbed onto just 33 cassette tapes at the time and has become a much sought after recording by fans over the years.The tapes and songs were thought to be lost.

San Antonio's Claire Rousay and Austin's Mari Maurice (More Eaze) are at the forefront of a niche but passionate experimental scene. Their first joint venture, last summer's an afternoon whine, proved their collaborative potential for strangeness.

It's the stuff of post-rock legend: in 1993, Efrim Menuck, Mauro Pezzente and Mike Moya recorded a demo cassette called All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling, their first as Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The tape's run was limited to 33 copies, and all of them quickly disappeared out of the hands of the band, and into the ether without being heard by most of the band's fanbase.

There are few contemporary bands as prolific and slippery as Animal Collective. In the first two decades of their collaborative career, the boyhood friends from Baltimore experimented in sound art, warped the edges of avant-pop, exploded into mainstream maximalism, and, finally, returned to an ambient, deconstructed naturalism.

Death, taxes, and Pusha T rapping about cocaine. There's very few guarantees in life but that's three right there.

Empath have always dealt in dissonance — both in the literal, harmonic meaning and in a more abstract, aural sense. Their new single, “Elvis Comeback Special,” is built on the jarring juxtaposition of Garrett Koloski’s fast, frenzied drumming and Catherine Elicson’s drifting, languorous vocals.

Beloved in independent rock circles as the artist behind The Microphones and Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum has dumped so much of his personal and interior lives into his music that it never feels like he's done anything other than invite people into his world. As a result, his conscious avoidance of many of the forward-facing elements of underground music celebrity has felt understandable and even necessary.

Before they released their first album, Black Country, New Road had already been dubbed “the best band in the world” by John Doran of The Quietus. Most of the songs on For The First Time had been released — or at least played live and uploaded to Youtube — by the time of its February 5, 2021 release.

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner have returned with their second track as The Smile. The Radiohead singer and guitarist joined forces with the drummer of English jazz quartet Sons of Kemet in May 2021 for a surprise performance at Glastonbury, and shared their debut single, "You Will Never Work In Television Again" at the start of the year.

Iceboy Violet has released their first mixtape as a vocalist, The Vanity Project, after sharing its lead single, "VANITY," last week. It follows 2020's Drown to Float, a quick compilation of ambient edits to tracks by Young Thug, Lil Baby, Gunna, Lil Durk, and RMR.

death's dynamic shroud have been a constant presence in the vaporwave scene since 2014, releasing some of the subgenre's most well-known and best-loved albums. The collective, founded by Tech Honors, James Webster, and Keith Rankin of Orange Milk Records, has released at least 15 projects since 2017, but all three original members have not appeared on any of those releases at the same time.

Jenny Hval is a notoriously complex, cryptic songwriter, but she says her forthcoming album, Classic Objects, is an attempt to "write simple stories." Announced today and due out March 11, the record will be her 10th solo studio album (including her first two, which she made under the name Rockettothesky) and her first with 4AD. Along with the news, she shared the album's second single, "Year of Love," which comes with a trippy video treatment.

Deerhoof have shared Devil Kids, an album-format recording of a live-streamed concert the band performed in November. According to a statement accompanying the record, the show marked the first time the first time the band had played together — or even seen each other in person — in two years.

Prolaps have shared the fourth and final chapter of the Ultra Cycle series they've put out in serial throughout 2021. The release of their latest record, like those of the cycle's previous three entries, corresponds to a change of season: Vernal Birth came with the promise of spring; Estival Growth dropped on the summer solstice; Autumnal Age was a fall equinox record.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland has released the highly anticipated Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined, a redux of his 1986 opus featuring new versions of five of the original album's six songs remixed by an all-star lineup of contemporary musicians. Album opener "Ever New" is reworked twice — once by Bon Iver and Flock of Dimes and later by Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill — in addition to a mid-album "transportation" of the track by Kelsey Lu that dropped in July as the new LP's lead single.

Experimental producer-turned-experimental glam rock artist Yves Tumor will embark on a massive world tour in 2022. The 47 dates will span headlining shows and festival appearances in Europe, the U.K., the United States, and Canada, with even more dates set to be revealed.