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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.

Welcoming the week with a special treat: an intimate, reimagined version of The Vernon Spring’s “Requiem for Reem.”

Recorded live in Ólafur Arnalds’ studio in Reykjavík, “Requiem for Reem” is gently profound, its melodies lingering and glowing with quiet depth. Grounded in Sam Beste’s playing style, acutely attuned to the nuances of the piano’s tonal profile, “Requiem for Reem” is a tender meditation that carries a quiet sense of catharsis.

“Requiem for Reem” is available now across all platforms, alongside a video by Maximilian Koenig that deftly captures Sam's performance. Watch and listen now, wherever one might.

Visible Cloaks’ Paradessence emerges into this world today, indelible, ineffable, illusional.

In 2015, RVNG began work on Reassemblage, the second album from the Portland-based duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile. Visible Cloaks had entered our orbit via a small swathe of incredible original music posted to an ascendent Soundcloud, and we soon immersed deeper into their rich, unfolding oeuvre.

Having released several bona fide cult mixes exploring the Fourth-World undercurrents in ‘80s Japanese ambient and pop, it was no coincidence that Visible Cloaks would incorporate some of this sound within their own music. But the duo’s ears have always been attuned to a wider frequency, and the music that ultimately materialized as reassemblage was paradigm-shifting.

While Visible Cloaks may have stayed somewhat quiet releasing original music since Serenitatem, their blissful 2019 edition of FRKWYS with Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, the creative process has never slowed. Some of Paradessence has even been under careful construction since the release of Reassemblage, which might cause some pause given its truly innovative contours.

Of course, this speaks to Spencer and Ryan’s disinterest in retreading any paths already pursued, and to their unbridled pursuit of unboundless sound; a utopic plane where symbiosis, be that between the natural and technological or the human and the virtual (or the unknown), unlocks possibility and potential.

Visible Cloaks’ Paradessence is available now in silver and black vinyl (both paired with an ultra-limited foldover print), Japanese CD import via Plancha, CD, and digital editions.

“Steel” is the fourth and final vision from Visible Cloaks’ Paradessence before the album appears in its illusive entirety this Friday, May 22.

“Steel” begins with percussive dots moving in an ascending figure; metal taught to sing. What appears to be the floor soon reveals an undulating quality, as airy synths pull inward like a landscape breathing, and decay overtakes even the most artificial sounds.

New sounds and textures are constantly, seamlessly introduced and transformed, their parameters modulated asynchronously so no five seconds of the song are identical. While the second half of the piece was recorded live as a Wi-Fi studio jam, the result is an interlocking set of systems growing and writhing across time.

The single surfaces alongside a final video directed by Visible Cloaks’ Spencer Doran pushing grade eterna’s "gaussian splats" into fully abstract territory.

Visible Cloaks’ Paradessence will be released this Friday, May 22 in vinyl, CD, and digital editions.