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An infectious synth-pop song, a lush indie track, a silky single and more new music
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An infectious synth-pop song, a lush indie track, a silky single and more new music
Lonnie Holley’s Oh Me Oh My (out 10 March) brims with music that’s just as atmospheric, experimental and spiritual as fans will expect from the musician, artist and educator. “Kindness That Will …
Bringing together artwork and words from children around the world, A GIFT is a heartwarming, humorous and at points heartbreaking book. Included are paintings from South Africa’s Cyrene Mission, art collected in the 1930s …
Eschewing the typical future-forward design that can leave devices feeling clinical, creative technologist Arvind Sanjeev’s AI-powered Ghostwriter embraces the warm style of a repurposed electric Brother typewriter, clicking keys included. Behind those keys, …
Acclaimed poet Franny Choi’s first new offering since Soft Science, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On is a meditation on historical, present-day and impending apocalypses, which notes how dystopia has …
Jaunty pop, infectious indie, joyfully chaotic rap and more
Sublime singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird sets a macabre Emily Dickinson poem to music with contributions from Phoebe Bridgers. The duet, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” was originally developed for Bird’s 2022 …
Franny Choi explores queerness, femininity, identity and autonomy as an Asian American woman in Soft Science, a book of poems that often center on futurism and technology in a remarkably human manner. While …
Two meditative tracks, a hazy lament, a bit of funk and more new music this week
Historic reparations, a poetic robot, underwater art galleries and more of our favorite discoveries from the year