Badtaste, the creative vehicle of Czech-German artist Anna Kristina, has dropped a conceptual diptych titled "Hedonism, Sobriety." Now operating out of Paris, the singer, songwriter, and dancer has constructed a release that thrives on friction. It is a project that looks directly at the messy, often contradictory nature of human desire and refuses to tidy it up for easy consumption. The music operates in the...

Dan Webb flips the script with his exhilarating new single, "Thai Basil", ditching existential dread for unabashed celebration. As the third preview of his upcoming fifth studio album, "Lion Dance", the track stands apart from that record’s looming contemplations of Taoist philosophy, displacement, and loss. Instead of wrestling with cosmic grief, Webb throws a straight-up party. https://open.spotify.com/track/04Ey67MP4SvGYkDqXD5CEA?si=a9d8adf312c8461a Without a single vocal line to steer the room,...