Anastasia Rydlevskaya makes rage feel methodical on Alchemia. Her fourth full-length album takes the four classical stages of alchemy and turns them into a hard-edged account of betrayal, trauma and feminine power. Nigredo, Albedo and Calcinatio, Citrinitas, then Rubedo each push the heroine into a new state. The result sits firmly in dark electronic music, but it also carries experimental pop and pagan motifs. That framing...

Sometimes a track hits you exactly when you need it, cutting straight through the noise with undeniable, unapologetic joy. You know that specific feeling when you lock eyes with someone and suddenly the entire room seems to shift on its axis? That is exactly what Mathias SB has captured in "Den rette for meg". The Norwegian artist has built a track that runs purely on the...