Vie Jester’s new EP, ‘Masquerade’, presents itself like a costume box found in an attic that smells faintly of ozone and old, ambitious blueprints. This Los Angeles trio, typically weavers of their own heavy, harmonious rock tapestries laced with esoteric concerns, have opted for a different kind of unveiling: they’re trying on other people's clothes. https://open.spotify.com/album/0grUBCwpcgdKF29lBxWmLR?si=RTUUi7H3SC2oUUHu0TdHig A covers EP can be a curious beast. Here, Vie...

There is something deeply satisfying about hearing a song you already love wearing an entirely new set of clothes. Salatiel, the Cameroonian hitmaker and founder of Alpha Better Records, has taken his 2018 fan favourite "Weekend" and rebuilt it from the ground up with an Amapiano pulse. The "Weekend Amapiano Remix" feels like a conversation between two eras of African music, one rooted in the Afrobeat...