Despot: House of Bricks

Queens rapper Despot—who’s collaborated with Vampire Weekend, Das Racist and Run the Jewels and is co-owner of Santos Party House—has been teasing at a debut album with Ratatat for years, and he finally offers a polished version of “House of Bricks,” a song he’s been performing live since 2012. Despot works in well-known lines from childhood story Three Little Pigs (though his house is being …

Nicolas Godin: Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde

For his first-ever solo album Contrepoint, Nicolas Godin (one half of veteran electronic music duo Air) takes inspiration from the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The track “Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde” (translating to “stand steadfast against sin”) uses the Bach church cantata of the same name as the foundation for Godin’s illusory original composition. In the accompanying black-and-white music video shows (in the most poetic …

Parachute Bedding

The young direct-to-consumer brand offers Italian made sheets to duvet inserts, and now linens

Luxury sheet sets can retail for hundreds, even thousands, of dollars—and even if people do spend one-third of their lives in bed, it’s hard to justify that kind of purchase. Young online bedding brand Parachute, which launched last year, offers Italian made sheets at a more digestible price for those who want to permanently retire their scratchy discount finds. Parachute dreams up their designs in …