Ostensibly a popstar, Spanish singer Rosalía is so much more. Her new album, Lux , is intellectual, experimental, and one-of-a-kind. Recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, arranged by Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning contemporary classical artist and composer Caroline Shaw, and with a cast of collaborators including Bjork, Yves Tumor, fado singer Carminho, flamenco singer Estrella Morente, Spanish singer/composer Sílvia Pérez Cruz, and American regional Mexican music trio Yahritza y su Esencia, you know this album's going to be special. Rosalía sings of faith and heartbreak, with lyrics in her native Spanish and Catalan, plus Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Portuguese, Sicilian, and Ukrainian. Unexpected, soaring, and stirring, this is the cinematic modern-classical-meets-experimental-pop-with-religious-undertones album of your dreams.
In the mid-2000s, Austin indie pop darlings Voxtrot burst onto the scene, releasing a debut album in 2007 before disbanding in 2010. Fast forward to 2026, and Voxtrot is back with their long (LONG) awaited return album, Dreamers in Exile . Possibly more of a reboot than a follow-up, Dreamers is full of catchy pop hooks held aloft by singer-guitarist Ramesh Srivastava’s voice, which hasn’t aged a day. With a style that varies from Beatlesque bedroom pop to the ‘80s new-wave inspired title track, Voxtrot have re-entered the chat in a big way.
Take a trip back to 1998, to the roots of the psybient movement on the classic Are You Shpongled? , the debut release from the UK electro pioneers Shpongle. Trance innovators Simon Posford and Raja Ram take trance to faraway lands, forging a new branch of the electronic family tree. From dancy beats to hypnotic flute interludes and mindbending atmospheric oddities, Are You Shpongled? will bring you on an otherworldly aural odyssey.