Music Reviews: Experimental Pop

Rosalìa is a Catalan singer whose musical studies focused on flamenco, but that is only one aspect of her broad and uncompromising compositional and performance abilities. Born near Barcelona in 1992, she may be more familiar as a pop performer, having produced hip-hop and reggaeton-flavoured tracks with artists like Pharrell Williams. If she is not that familiar to some North American readers today, that might change rapidly; the album “Lux” reached top ten in the... Read More

What do you get when you combine acoustic singer-songwriter qualities with the electronic and infectious beat of the dancefloor? You might find something similar to the German duo of childhood friends, Clemens Rehbein and Phillipp Dausch who go by the moniker Milky Chance. This review may be your introduction to the band—if so, then Willkommen!—but Milky Chance have existed for about a decade and have just released their seventh full-length, Living in a Haze on their... Read More

The mystery of Bladee increases yet again. Never slowing down for anyone, the 28-year-old Swedish artist and Drain Gang leader returns with Spiderr, his second album this year after March’s Ecco2k collaboration, Crest. Bladee (Benjamin Reichwald) is this era’s most prolific and enigmatic cult icon, constantly evolving his aesthetic as legions of terminally online teenagers rush to copy his every move (and horrifically fail). Since his 2018 mixtape Icedancer, Bladee’s... Read More