Kelela: Rewind

Kelela offers another taste of her upcoming EP Hallucinogen, now scheduled for 9 October (delayed from its original May date). “Rewind” is much more straightforward in its beats in contrast to her last single “A Message,” but features the arousing, sensuous vocals that we’ve come to desire from Kelela. She seems to hover somewhere above us mere mortals.

Sevdaliza: That Other Girl

Iran-born, Netherlands-based singer Sevdaliza has just released a video for her arresting and minimalist song “That Other Girl.” Made in collaboration with experimental artists Pussykrew, the visuals are a glossy, metallic, dripping, surreal journey through an eerily still alternate universe. As Sevdaliza’s lyrics aptly explain, she is “operating from another world.”

Car Seat Headrest: Something Soon

Will Toledo is pretty prolific for a 22-year-old: he’s already churned out 11 albums straight to Bandcamp in the past five years. Under the moniker Car Seat Headrest (not wanting to be audible to his family, Toledo would take his computer and drive to empty parking lots to sing and record vocals), the singer-songwriter reworks his material with a full band for an official debut …