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Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! manifests in our world today, an ecstatic invitation to a utopic dimension of sound.

D2BT2HA! marks RVNG’s fourth release with Horse Lords, and the tenth full-length accumulation of material in the band’s sixteen year history. Sixteen years is a long haul, and no easy feat for a band that found three of its four members transplanted from Baltimore to Berlin in 2021. While expatriating added a certain spice to the band dynamic, they recognized that D2BT2HA! would be the first Horse Lords album synthesized from a distance.

This endeavor offered an experiment with proximity, a dedication to communal philosophies, an opportunity for individuality to harmonize in the great spirit, and experience, of communication. As the band describes: “though the goal is still to speak from the position of a compound subjectivity, to break down the boundaries that individuate us, much more than past records there are four individuals speaking here. parallel play.”

And parallel play they have. D2BT2HA! is the most euphoric and joyful the band has sounded, a true exploration of spiritual rapture. Weaving numerous sonic and conceptual layers together with ease and intensity, the Lords have emerged with their most ambitious work, a celebration of music’s undeniable power and humanity. Is it a coincidence that 2026 marks the Year of the Fire Horse?

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is available now in clear and marbled blue LP, black LP, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

“Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!” is the final offering from Horse Lords’ D2BT2HA! before the album spirals into our realm this Friday, June 12.

“Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!” is an ecstatic injection; alto saxophone, voices, guitar, and electronics glinting and gleaming off of a robust, stone-skipping backbeat. The tune’s raw materials stem from the band’s work with Arnold Dreyblatt, though it has its own bright, accretive minimalism thanks to FM synthesis. Teeming with synthesized ricochets and staggered swing, there’s an economy to Horse Lords’ compositional approach and assured delivery that makes their complex systems genuinely life affirming.

The single arrives alongside a vibrant video created by Dan Conrad and edited by Will Schorre, featuring colored lights arranged in shifting, hypnotizing patterns.

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! will be released this Friday, June 12 in vinyl, CD, and digital editions.

Homenaje a K is the next act of Freedom to Spend’s ongoing Pep Llopis reissue series, out everywhere now.

Crafted for a 1988 dance production by renowned avant-garde Valencian company Ananda Dansa, Homenaje a K cemented Llopis’ iconic status as a composer of vanguard performance scores. The record’s compositions take on the operatic, soundtracking a narrative that confronts the absurdity and incomprehensibility of everyday acts of violence.

The indelible voice of Spanish soprano Esperanza Abad shapes the album’s overall aura. Her performances stray and shapeshift, scatting out of static and adding further depth to spectral shadows. Together with Llopis’ vivid palette of twinkling synths and thunderous  percussion, the score chronicles tragedy and spectacle while always keeping one hand extended towards redemption.

Homenaje a K is available now on all digital platforms for the very first time. We also have a limited inventory of original vinyl stock on the Freedom to Spend site and Bandcamp, waiting, after all these years, just for you.

been thinking bout confession is the third studio album by Brooklyn-based musician and producer Frances Chang, a synth-tinged experimental pop excavation of the self and the vast unknown depths it contains.

Situating the unbridled emotion of her diy roots within a complex and poetic sonic landscape, Chang interweaves orchestral arrangements with idiosyncratic, almost sculptural, electronic and analog interventions. What emerges is a coming-of-consciousness film rendered in sound, where Chang deftly plays both narrator and witness.

Today, we prime the palette with “Is affect real?,” the record’s inquisitive first single. A sweeping soliloquy on alienation and inspiration, the track examines what it means to live in America without being cast as its main character. Sonically and conceptually ambitious, “is affect real?” epitomizes Chang’s ability to conjure unique sonic realms without losing sight of the playful undercurrent coursing throughout.

“Is affect real?” comes accompanied by a cinematic video made by Chang and Joohee Park, featuring Chang in exhilarating melodrama.

Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession is available for pre-order now, and will be released on August 21, 2026 in translucent purple LP, black LP, and digital editions.

Emily A. Sprague’s Double Moon EP has arrived, feathering from the clouds into our orbit today.

The Double Moon EP marks a stirring new phase in Emily's solo work, introducing her distinctive vocal cascade and lyricism to her environmental compositions for the very first time. Weaving a delicate tapestry of drifting synths and glowing imagery, Emily effortlessly reveals sensorial breadth across three ephemeral, essential tracks.

Featuring “Double Moon” and Andras’ “Double Moon” dub, the 7” version also includes the exclusive track “Dusk (How to Fly).” Melding gentle melodies with a slow acoustic rush, the work subtly moves from intimate memory to a boundless emotional aperture. A special experience, only on wax.

Emily A. Sprague’s Double Moon EP is available now on the RVNG site and Bandcamp. Stay tuned for more sounds from Emily, patiently awaiting you just beyond the beyond.

Andras’ “Double Moon (Andras Dub)” casts a brightened overlay across Emily A. Sprague’s original composition.

Transforming the original track’s textures with radiant rhythms, “Double Moon (Andras Dub)” springs and scatters to reveal a prism of weather and echo, a glittering rain to daylight vapor. The dub is a fluidly iterative evolution—bringing both clearer focus to Sprague's mesmeric songwriting and a spirited reset to the core melodic stretches of the song, entrusting vivid sound and synchronicity in its wake.

“Double Moon (Andras Dub)” is available now, glimmering on all platforms. Emily A. Sprague’s Double Moon EP, featuring the extra-exclusive track “Dusk (How to Fly)” is available tomorrow, May 29, 2026.