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Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession materializes in our world today.

Our journey with Frances began in February of 2023, when she sent a physical demo of her second album Psychedelic Anxiety to the RVNG PO box. The record quickly established itself among our favorites, Frances’ wildly inventive deconstruction of pop music being both deeply challenging and viscerally moving, each new listen a ritual bringing one closer to the intimate, inimitable core of her creative psyche.

By the time we began our correspondence, Psychedelic Anxiety was already shooting forward toward a release, which by Frances’ astrological accounts, was the intended alignment. Hailing from a punk / post hardcore background, Frances spent a majority of 2024 touring the record in DIY and community spaces, an experience that led her to begin work on a new album, one grounded in the present moment and place, a true life experience of the now, journalistic and imperfect

been thinking bout confession was, as Frances notes, “born out of an extended period of personal avoidance. It’s about exploring shame, unearthing forgotten skeletons from the closet.” Retuning to the piano, her primary instrument, and converting her writing desk into a shrine to the muses (poets and mystics alike), Frances made contact again with her deeper reason for making music. She abandoned a sense of self-betrayal that arose by living away from herself, and found comfort in keeping some things to herself.

What Frances did decide to share is magical, both sacred and sentimental. It’s music that tugs at your heart and expands your mind. Music that is truly, and wholly, its own.

Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession is available now on translucent purple and classic black vinyl, CD (via Plancha) and digital editions.

“Bad zen” is the final offering from Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession before her third album materializes in our world this Friday, August 21.

The first song written for been thinking bout confession, “Bad zen” is a restless undead evocation of the void and life after death, emblematic of what Chang describes as “vampire music.” The restrained synth-strings that guide the song’s first half eventually give way to formlessness, as Chang’s floating vocals unearth a death drive. a fully apocalyptic piece, “Bad zen” is a cipher for the album’s themes: death and rebirth, mystery and unknowing, fantasy and desire, the murky line between the Self and the Other.

Frances will join the chat for a special Bandcamp listening party this Thursday, August 20 at 1pm before heading out on a clutch of tour dates with Bill Callahan, winding through the West and landing back home in New York City for an album release show on Thursday, September 17 at Night Club 101. 

Frances Chang’s been thinking about confession is shipping now from RVNG HQ, and will be released wide this Friday on translucent purple and classic black vinyl, CD (via Plancha) and digital editions.

Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s Saturday Dancer, Ways Away, and Run Runner are a series of extraordinary homespun albums and sound collaborations, resurfacing this October on Freedom to Spend.

Using a Roland W-30, a smattering of drum machines, and a four-track cassette recorder, Tanega and Pavletich spent their weekends in the late 1980s creating a trio of operettas, song cycles which they released as short-run tapes. Now, nearly four decades later, these utterly distinctive, effortlessly experimental albums re-work their charm for intrepid listeners.

Norma Tanega, the musician, painter, and vibrant spirit whose 1966 international pop hit “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog” is only the best-known of countless creative achievements, spent her career’s second act cultivating an unassumingly non-commercial, wildly prolific community-based art practice in her home of Claremont, California. She was already longtime friends with Aida Pavletich, the author of the books Rock-A-Bye, Baby and Sirens of Song, when the pair decided to make combined use of Tanega’s richly diverse home studio on Mount Baldy.

Today, we share “Danse Macabre,” two pieces for their Tanega and Pavletich's first album, epitomizing the incorrigible irreverence and fluent experimentalism of their creators’ collaboration. Twin exercises in mood, tension, and avant-garde sonic contrasts, the tracks provide a dizzying introduction to the world Tanega and Pavletich conjured.

Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s Saturday Dancer, Ways Away, and Run Runner will be released in newly transferred and remastered digital editions, and a small inventory of original cassettes, on October 9, 2026.

M. Sage offers Brush Flier, surfacing material from sessions surrounding his 2025 album Tender / Wading.

Whether “the weirdest, noisiest, stormiest, or most spacious” of Sage's latest album, these six songs make a wild, distinct grouping. A collection of daydreams from a different world, the experiments of Brush Flier veer into glitchy jazz, dubbed-out electronics, pastoral Kosmiche folk, and beat-centric laptop music; a veritable sound sampler that reminds us of sage’s boundless cross-genre capacity.

Today, we christen Brush Flier’s journey with two enthralling tracks. On “Thunder Covered Brush,” Sage pairs light guitar strums with pattering percussion in anticipation of a storm rolling in. The track speaks to what Sage calls a “yeehaw exoticism,” examining how Western identity overlaps with otherness, and how the unfamiliar can be found in the everyday.

The next spacious primer, “Near Faraway Place” rests in Sage’s core memory of going to a farm-and-ranch expo as a kid. road-tested out the open window of Sage’s pickup truck, the glitchy mix of chimes and voices pays spiritual homage to Aaron Copland’s “Rodeo”

Both tracks emerge out of the open air alongside a seamless video crafted by Sage, transforming the mundane into something bizarre and truly beautiful.

M. Sage’s Brush Flier arrives September 25, 2026 on all digital platforms.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind is a sonic travelogue of stories waiting and wanting to be told.

Motorcycles and Cherry Wind holds sounds of timeless quality—like inherited folklore, draped with secondhand nostalgia—taking the shape of whoever is eager enough to claim it as their own. Rich and full of character like the dusty mystery of an archeological site, Kural whispers to the living and the long gone alike in a warm, poetic embrace.

Today, we prime the palette with “Winter Sun,” arriving with a softness of dawn, caressing slowly and illuminating with a midwinter glow. Violin strings intertwine with ethereal piano keys over Kural’s gentle humming of sweet somethings. Time feels suspended as Kural hints towards a state of being: like lovers walking through a misty city park, a glint in the eyes giving away what the lips hesitate to admit.

The single arrives alongside a video directed by Barnaby Omar, capturing the radiant, restless sensations of a brand new, blossoming love.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind will be released on October 30, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

Khotin’s remix of “Sing To” washes a scattered brightness over Emily A. Sprague’s contemplative composition.

In polar complement to its original track, this remix re-organizes mood fields into palpable grandeur and re-threads the limits where soundscape meets song. Melancholic patches are lifted into soft exuberance through a collage of flutes, percussive chimes, and radiant beats that meet the listener at the forefront of feeling.

Blending nostalgic timbres with new compositional considerations, Khotin breaks open a space where inspiration and memory effortlessly merge, creating possibility beyond sound.

"Sing To (Khotin Remix)" is available now, glistening for you on all platforms. Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano will be released in its entirety on October 2, 2026, in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.