LoDeck & The Golden Godz have offered up "Viscera Cera", a new video single plucked from their album "Dinner at Dorsia", and I have spent the afternoon letting its bruised nostalgia entirely reconfigure my mood. https://open.spotify.com/track/5BkXL2bOstPvHXJfd1cPAu?si=e49710028f0f4c72 You hear a lot of artists attempt to bottle the underground magic of golden-era NYC hip-hop, but usually, you only get the sediment. Here, you get the actual marrow. The...

Right, so, Reinis Jaunais. Latvian, guitar-slinger, world-wanderer… makes sense that his new album, "Nest," feels like opening a suitcase overflowing with… things. Not junk, mind you. More like… carefully curated curiosities. Eleven songs, eleven postcards from somewhere just beyond the familiar. https://open.spotify.com/album/5mbemTIWhAYV7fHe5V9562 It's world music, yes, but not in the dusty, anthropological sense. Think more… progressive fusion. A touch of the acoustic guitar played in that...