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“Arp Angels” is the second offering from Discovery Zone’s Library Copy Do Not Remove before the album materializes in our dimension this Friday, May 15.

“Arp Angels” begins with an ominous tension, the approach of something cyber, divine, mercurial. Synths sparkle over bass frequencies, heralding the arrival of celestial, or synthetic, beings liberated from the need of body or form. Sounds layer on top of each other, glimmering high to simulated heaven and resonating low into computerized earth. Full of multiplicity and movement, the track traces the trail of code left behind by fluttering digital wings.

“Arp Angels” emerges accompanied by another video by director Mark Dorf, and news of a Bandcamp listening party tomorrow, May 13 at 2 p.m. EDT. Visit the Library Copy Do Not Remove page on Bandcamp for more details, and to RSVP. Speaking of extra-special events, JJ’s upcoming NYC show at Stone Circle Theater is (almost) sold out, but tickets remain for her LA show at 2220 Arts + Archives. Move accordingly.

Discovery Zone’s Library Copy Do Not Remove arrives this Friday, May 15 in black LP, signed artist edition LP, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

It’s been a full year since The Vernon Spring’s Under A Familiar Sun first broke through the clouds and gently radiated across our collective sky.

Today, we’re commemorating the occasion with the release of UnFamiliar Sun: a vibrant tapestry of complimentary reworks that refract The Vernon Spring’s original record into familiar and unfamiliar forms.

Intimate and remarkably fresh, the record features a blissful assortment of collaborations from Saoirse-Juno, Dot Never, Loa, Iko Niche, Confucius MC, Rosie Lowe, Oliver Coates, Sweet Bandit, aden, and H.Takahashi.

UnFamiliar Sun is available now across all digital platforms, including RVNG’s Bandcamp page. Listen now, and wade into the warmth.

“No avatar” is the latest enchanting composition from boundary-pushing, Brooklyn-based musician Frances Chang.

In the single, Frances finds a paradoxical, swaggering confidence in the dissolution of her self image. Rejecting outward depictions of the self, she slips into a more intuitive mode. A sort of love song to the shadow self, the song posits a deeper inquiry into the mysteries of the subconscious that Chang seems wistfully ready to lead us through.

“No avatar” is available now on all platforms, and beyond, for your listening enjoyment.

The second rung to Horse Lords’ forthcoming album Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! appears today with “First Galactic Utopia.”

“First Galactic Utopia” plays with taffy-like delayed guitars and a dry, dizzy beat, anchored by fuzz bass and the distorted refrain of a Kuwaiti mirwas hand drum. The rhythm section is palpably locked-in, an immovable baseline as the root around which psychedelic fields of synthesized elements rotate. A brief passage of expansive, electronic filaments emerge, closing out this curious, ass-shaking nugget of experimental transcendence.

The single arrives alongside a mind-melting video from Alexander Stewart, with visual patterns of dashes and dots moving and looping in intricate, hypnotic choreography.

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is available for pre-order, and will be released on June 12, 2026 in vinyl, CD, and digital editions.

The next installment of Freedom to Spend’s ongoing Pep Llopis reissue series (re)emerges today with La Comèdia De Les Equivocacions.

La Comèdia De Les Equivocacions is most emblematic of Llopis’ idea of the composer as a collector of resonances, transforming them into “new forms of sound communication.” Written to score playwright / director Juli Leal’s 1987 stage adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, the music blends lyricism and exuberance, tenderness and mystery, familiarity and mystery — all refracted and relayed into a truly inimitable, ineffable work.

Synth pop, symphonic rock, and American minimalism resound and rebound throughout the score, accented by echoes of harpsichord, synthesizers, and the tried-and-true theatrical chorus. It’s a resonant fusion that’s entirely Llopis’ own, an expression unwavering in its singular fantasticality and flair.

La Comèdia De Les Equivocacions is available now on all digital platforms for the very first time. For the occasion, we have a (very)  limited inventory of original vinyl available on the Freedom to Spend site for those seeking some extra Pep in their step.

Emily A. Sprague returns with the Double Moon EP, a turning point in her prolific composition.

Lead track “Double Moon” traces psychic and tangible landscapes as parallel realms. Through incantatory repetition and instinctual precision, Sprague reveals sensorial breadth with modular intricacy and lyrical foresight.

Marked by patched gradients, frosted angles, and warm ripples, each sound revolves around the next, appearing and vanishing across a gripping sonic arc. Featuring V. Haddad’s translucid backing vocals, the track moves in iridescent subtlety—night’s color drawn across the sky, illuminating the silhouettes it renders possible.

“Double Moon” rises today alongside a mesmerizing visual by V. Haddad, inviting listeners to experience true sensorial immersion–audial, visual, ineffable.

The track is available now digitally, and as a 7” featuring a dub of “Double Moon” by label fave Andras and an extra-special, extra-exclusive cut “Dusk (How to Fly).” Tune into the tides now.