The dark-ambient score for A24’s hit horror film Backrooms is best when it embraces the offbeat and uncanny
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- On her debut album, the chameleonic Argentine artist Six Sex offers bouncy club absurdism and Latin electroclash steeped in hedonism, provocation, and sexual autonomy
- The New York cello-saxophone duo KatzPascale trades the strictures of classical music for more exploratory tones and textures, fusing the expansiveness of film scores with the immediacy of pop
- Though only half the length of their 2025 breakthrough debut, the New York quartet YHWH Nailgun's second album is dense with ideas and enlivened by purpose
- April Harper Grey's freaked-out pop is Madonna and Britney Spears filtered through the Skrillex distortion portal
- Vince Staples’ choice to make a rock album is poignant
- Even the last few White Stripes albums weren’t as stacked as this amp-busting blues punk
- Radiohead’s 2003 album soundtracks the modern production of Shakespeare’s classic tale
- “Hyper” and “maximal” aren’t enough to describe the extreme overload of Jane Remover
- The newly minted Jimi Hendrix Way is down the street from the guitarist’s legendary Electric Lady Studios
- An odd koan of a record, stuffed to the gills with rhythms and images and feelings, yet loose and dreamlike
- The Pope gets points for being from Chicago. Knocked Loose rates Leo XIV, Daft Punk, and more in a Primavera Sound edition of Over/Under
00:00 - Widowspeak's candor and humor is a welcome departure from the self-serious indie rock of many of their more successful peers
