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“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.

Discovery Zone’s Library Copy Do Not Remove renders in our simulation today.

In 2023, JJ Weihl was commissioned for a special spatial audio performance inside the historic Zeiss-Sroß Planetarium dome in Berlin. This unusual invitation provided a fittingly unusual challenge: how would JJ approach spatializing her music for this environment, and what would it sound like?

Those familiar with Discovery Zone’s music know it is often anchored in rhythm, her infectious grooves inspiring and urging the listener to move. Reading the spherical room, and seeing a place to simulate space, if not an entirely other universe, JJ instead decided to completely redesign the circuitry of Discovery Zone’s mainframe. 

Extracting her voice and kick drum, JJ worked with Fenster bandmate Lucas Chantre and longtime producer E/T to craft a constellation of interwoven environmental compositions, spiraling and expanding outward in seemingly eternal layers of synth and bass. The resulting recordings constitute an intricate sonic mythos, one that boldly explores the creative tension between reality and perception, harmony and disorder, nature and technology.

Discovery Zone’s Library Copy Do Not Remove is available now in vinyl, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

“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.