
Music

Glenn Jones: “Vade Mecum”
Boston’s Glenn Jones practices a style of guitar dubbed “American Primitive.”

Sessa: “Gostar do Mundo”
Brazilian rhythms percolate through the cool landscapes carved out by São Paulo’s Sessa.

Roméo Poirier: “Porte contre”
Brussels’ Roméo Poirier retains a shadow’s trace of a techno beat on the ethereal “Porte contre”.


Marlowe: “Heist”
Fleet rhymes, double time. Marlowe lets loose over funk samples on “Heist”.

Michał Jan & Immortal Onion: “Digital Relations”
The Polish ensemble behind the Screens LP doesn’t know how experimental it is.

Tongue Love: “Rock Bottom”
Tongue Love bring rollicking rock n roll to their recent EP Rubchinuk.

Sunglaciers: “Avoidance”
The Calgary band delivers bouncy, propulsive darkwave dancehall jams.

Lane: “Vision II”
The thrust is pop, though you’re never quite sure which hook to hang your hat on.

Clamb: “Four Step Ascension”
A prog song that keeps it simple, if you can imagine such a thing.

Mamalarky: “Hero”
A bright, breezy guitar-picking indie rock tune buoyed by off-planet synth sounds.

Zemi17: “In The Softness”
The ambient genre might provide an inroad for gamelan music to get on your playlists.

Carla dal Forno: “Come Around”
Carla dal Forno’s “Come Around” is a spare, minimalist vintage pop hangout song.

The Bedroom Witch: “In This City”
Breathy, trancy night rhythms abound of The Bedroom Witch’s “In This City”.

Anat Cohen: “Boa Tarde Povo”
Jazz led along like a cool white tiger on a diamond-encrusted leash by a show-stopping clarinet player.

Blasdell Rod and Gun Club: “Kinks of Getting Along”
A soft picker with plenty of reverb, in case you’re working off a hangover.

Jennifer Hall: “Belonging Forever”
Jennifer Hall delivers the perfect synth pop track for prepping a New Year’s night out.

DJ Scriby: “S3”
The Gqom Trilogy advertises itself as an advertisement of the gqom sound. Are you hearing a little amapiano?

phoneswithchords: “cut the kid”
A finger picking, solo guitar effort from Tennessee’s phoneswithchords.

Dezron Douglas: “Atalaya”
The bassist Dezron Douglas is thinking about the big picture on “Atalaya”.