Author name: Ash Lestes

The ephemeral quality to Rooms Without Doors, “Houses (with things that’ve died),” is transfixing. A frozen soundscape that tilts into the mournful, processing its grief across its runtime as it comes back down to earth.

Don’t you hate it when mysterious figures come in your room and transform your body into a latex balloon? Smdh

Black Box,” is an album that exists between electronic and industrial ambient. Plunderphonics that builds its own sonic reality. In its patient construction of space, letting each song build its own room, the album creates a liminal setting worth spending time in.

PASSENGERPRINCESS is an overrefined mix of hyperpop diluted by the algorithm, in which the hits betray the B-sides for a solid pop album that suffers from its marketability ambitions.

Can of Bliss fights to be an artist worth hearing on a sophomore album that reaches for the heights, though often straining to do so.

Pent Up Pup’s, “FURFAG,” is an audacious and unashamed expression of desire. Capturing the unique beauty of kink culture and queer sexuality in the furry fandom.

Gabu’s delicious pop production gives a lovesick hunger to an album fraught with the highs, lows, and in-betweens of a relationship at its end.