The Tokyo four-piece send journalists a written document called the Unified Vision. The blacked-out shades, the Matrix-green flyers and the strobe-blind live set all descend from it, which is the correct order to do this in and almost nobody does.
White shirt, black tie, checkered miniskirt, white socks. Six years of one outfit, treated as armour, and then removed for the one image that matters most.
Angela Autumn’s Believer stretches her Appalachian old‑time into psych‑rock, honky‑tonk and indie country; stream or buy it on Bandcamp or Spotify.
Sylvan Esso return with Ow ∞, their first album in four years, made with Durham collaborators and intended as a 'bubbly tonic for the existential terror loop'.
Yasmina Derradj studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and the credits on her record read "Artwork by Yasmina Derradj". The persona came before the songs.
Greenlandic artists fold drum-dance and field recordings into electronic music to carry Kalaallisut identity beyond the islands.
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Artists who built a world, and the people who built it with them.
Sleeves, covers and the people who made them.
Videos as part of an artist's world rather than a promo asset.
What the show looks like, and what that says.
Artists early enough that the world is still being decided.
One artist, one world, once a week. The record, the artwork, the video, and the people who made all three.
