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"It’s some kind of amoebic, multiversal, mega-polyhedron, time-lapse, surreal deep-dream interpolation of the entire Earth and surrounding cosmos" — Lyra Pramuk on her mind-bending new album, 𝘏𝘺𝘮𝘯𝘢𝘭 hearingthings.co/lyra-pramuk-in…

I don’t know how any ardent music fan could read Liz Pelly's book 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 and *not* be moved to cancel their Spotify subscription hearingthings.co/why-we-quit-sp…

16 years removed from calling himself “Wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked,” Malice of the Clipse has reconciled himself fully on Let God Sort Em Out. He’s back to spew venom and holy water all at once. hearingthings.co/the-art-of-rec…

All of this week’s records are perfect for the sweatiest season, whether you’re looking to lean into the deliriousness or find some relief hearingthings.co/summer-music-f…

Fuck-it-all Atlanta rapper Lazer Dim 700 floats over a sugar-high beat on "Mesmerized" that sounds like it was sourced from a long-lost Sega 32X game hearingthings.co/a-touching-ode…

"I'm trying to demonstrate that you can do really solid and high-quality things without spending a lot of money." A conversation with the Spanish songwriter and producer Amore, whose inventive, minimalist pop is matched by her cinematic performances hearingthings.co/amore-spanish-…

The sudden popularity of an entirely A.I. band feels like both a culmination of Spotify’s anti-artist policies and a precursor of hells yet to come hearingthings.co/why-we-quit-sp…

In this week's Five Songs: unapologetically queer rap set to a violin-heavy beat, mind-bending grooves for the Berklee graduate in your life, smooth spy raps, Southern-diva fight music, and a sweet Dijon ballad that happens to have Justin Bieber on it hearingthings.co/the-queer-pro-…

This week's Five Songs includes a track from the year’s most anticipated release for the Berklee College of Music graduate in your life hearingthings.co/the-queer-pro-…

My favorite MCs aren’t necessarily the ones who come out on top of whatever struggles they face; they're the ones who confront their personal wins and losses honestly and openly, with the fear or hope of doing it all again tomorrow hearingthings.co/the-art-of-rec…

No tech company is perfect, and the streaming crisis is bigger than Spotify. But there are other platforms that care about sound quality, have higher per-stream rates, and don’t seem to be daring music lovers to hate them every single week. hearingthings.co/why-we-quit-sp…

The new record from Brazilian funk producer D.Silvestre is party music of the rawest order, but it also feels like an appropriately visceral response to a violently oppressive world hearingthings.co/summer-music-f…

On Clipse's 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘌𝘮 𝘖𝘶𝘵, Malice is back to spew venom and holy water all at once hearingthings.co/the-art-of-rec…

A sun-kissed blend of dub, jazz, R&B, lovers rock, and funk, Kokoroko’s second album plays like a summer soundtrack descended from a place higher than heaven hearingthings.co/summer-music-f…

Wu-Tang Clan played New York's Madison Square Garden on the final leg of their farewell tour last week. Dylan went to the show and wrote about seeing children of all ages (but especially actual children) experience the group for the first time hearingthings.co/wu-tang-really…

Every uptempo track is streaked with melancholy, and every ballad is charged with the bittersweet feeling that a celebration is happening somewhere down the hall, seeping in occasionally through paper-thin apartment walls hearingthings.co/jim-legxacys-t… hearingthings.co/jim-legxacys-t…

Through divine absolution and a lot of mental elbow grease, respectively, Malice and Open Mike Eagle don’t just lower their guards on their new albums, they find peace in the ways they move through the world hearingthings.co/the-art-of-rec…

Imagine if Beyoncé knew what it was like to have a shit job and leftist politics — enter Cleo Reed. Their phenomenal new album 𝘊𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 is like 𝘊𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳 for people who think America is a scam. hearingthings.co/four-out-of-fi…

In this week's Five Songs... a ghostly guitar nightmare, no-frills Atlanta rap, a Palestinian pop anthem that clowns American culture, primetime dance-pop, and a winning Coldplay-style ballad that (probably) won't break up your marriage hearingthings.co/the-closest-th…

"It feels emotionally like a Kool-Aid man is busting in, but he's like, crying.” hearingthings.co/disnibluds-mag…