In "Resurrection," Beta Libre's defiant new single from her forthcoming sophomore album, becomes mythology. Through pulsing Moog synthesisers and razor-sharp poetry, the Italian electronic artist turns monthly bleeding into a holy cycle of death and rebirth, which is similar to Christian stories about the resurrection but more feminine. This is feminism as sound magic and the body as religion. Beta Libre, the Tuscan singer, composer, and...

To listen to Vicious Clay’s `"bleecker street revisited"` is to stumble upon a cartographer’s personal diary, one filled with maps of places that no longer exist and sketches of emotional territories still being charted. This is the latest work from Vinny Silva’s musical project, and it feels less like a collection of songs and more like a core sample, drilled deep into the bedrock...