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...

There is a peculiar kind of magic in watching people completely rewrite the script of their own public existence, which is exactly what The Marsh Family are doing with their sweeping debut album, "Hollow Chapters". You likely remember Ben, Danielle, Alfie, Tom, Ella, and Tess as the cheerful Kent collective whose viral parodies gave millions a reason to smile when the walls were closing...