Getting ghosted by someone you thought you were building a future with hits different. It is the frantic, exhausting mental gymnastics of trying to figure out what went wrong when the other person refused to leave a manual. You are left holding a bag of mixed emotions, bouncing between intense nostalgia and the kind of anger that makes you want to throw your phone into the...

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...