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Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is Horse Lords’ sixth studio album, an electrifying leap forward for the band’s shared language.

The music on Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! feels both impossibly detailed and eminently human. The twelve pieces assembled here are layered, interwoven, tonally and rhythmically complex—moiré-like patterns of interaction and tessellation that play out for both mind and body, full of sonic warrens with an inescapable groove.

Today we set the stage with two propulsive selections. “Eureka 378-B,” the album’s opening track, is an arrangement of a nineteenth century hymn from The Sacred Harp. Utterly transformed by auto-tune and modulation, though the voices of guest vocalists Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor remain clear. On “Brain of the Firm,” polyphonic and wordless voices dance around pulsing bass, slinky guitar phrases, keyboard bloops, and fleet kit work. Teeming with spiritual resonance, the songs mark an ecstatic return for the adventurous quartet.

These first tracks arrive with a pair of brain-bending videos by visual artist and gallerist Scott Kiernan.

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

The second offering from Tristan Allen’s Osni the Flare arrives today with “Act III: Rite.”

“Act III: Rite” spirals around a low, looping bass-driven melody, catching embers with each rotation. A street-found pump organ and harmonium provide foundation, their air mechanisms mimicking the breath of the dragon who leads this scene.

Eventually, “Rite” careens into a gentle, epiphanic shimmer—ethereal and hollow. What begins as a grounded ritual transforms into something unmoored and visionary, providing invocation as fire draws attention to a familiar world fractured.

The single is accompanied by another fantastical video by Travis Hood and Ross Mayfield documenting Tristan’s new puppet symphony. Listen, and look now.

Paradessence is the third full length from acclaimed electronic duo Visible Cloaks, a work of emergence and illusion.

Conjuring an abstract representation of our dream reality through shifting forms, Paradessence builds imagined spaces that are emotionally nuanced and rise to moments of grace. Over fourteen songs that persistently shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavernous space is shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of natural world.

Since transforming into Visible Cloaks in 2014, Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile have mapped a complex matrix of oppositional concepts: organic and artificial, chance and deliberate, authentic and replicated. Paradessence directly reflects these oppositional concepts: its arrangements are grandiose and fragile, both an inversion and culmination of what came before, and as adventurous as anything the duo have produced so far.

“Disque,” the album’s first single featuring Motion Graphics, is a series of increasingly beautiful exhalations. The track emerges alongside a video made with photogrammetrist Grade Eterna, navigating and contorting a “point cloud” of an unnamed London greenhouse.

This week, Visible Cloaks will perform two shows in Portland and Seattle as part of the Age of Reflections event series. With a mind-altering lightshow of projection-mapped graphics, these nights are not to be missed.

Visible Cloaks’ Paradessence will be released on May 22, 2026 on in vinyl, CD, and digital editions, with a Japanese CD version from Plancha.

“Will We Be There” is the final meditation from David Moore’s Graze the Bell before the album takes flight for eternal skies this Friday, January 30.

Tolling its tender bell, the slow meditation of “Will We Be There” awakens the interior. Its lowest notes hit soft and deep, melting the demands of the day and surveying the soul like a dousing rod. Its hypnotic refrain signals a sweet longing for the unattainable, a palpable, transcendental melancholy.

As Moore channels his inquiry into the human condition at the piano, the unanswerability of the title stirs secret emotions into awareness. And though the answers remain elusive, the music offers solace at an intimate level.

“Will We Be There” arrives today alongside a video by french filmmaker and longtime collaborator and friend Sébastian Cros.

“Earth Angels of the Bone Age” is the final window into Dialect’s Full Serpent EP before the ep emerges tomorrow, Friday, January 23.

“Earth Angels of the Bone Age” is a buoyant ode to the past and a vivid glimpse into a dream world that Andrew PM Hunt has appeared to set up permanent residency. The track finds Green deep in visions of the golden age, our present day, where glitchy vestiges of natural and digital sounds suggest a world bustling with precarious energy.

Skittering with excitement and swelling to euphoria, the track lays free-wheeling composition on a bed of visual snow. Lost in Green’s imagination (or is it Hunt’s?), an electromagnetic orchestra soundtracks the lightning-quick daydreams that pivot and morph.

The single arrives today accompanied by an exuberantly colorful music video depicting playtime in Green’s world, as interpreted by collaborator and multi-disciplinary artist nil00. Dialect’s Full Serpent EP arrives in full tomorrow, Friday, January 23.

Water Poems, the third installment in RVNG’s contemporary collaboration series Reflections, channels Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou’s longstanding friendship and atmospheric artistry into ceremonial focus.

On Water Poems, Atkinson’s intimate spoken-word environments and Vantzou’s orchestral imagination flow like tributaries into a unified stream, coalescing into a collection of dreamlike songs and soundscapes anchored in sea, sky, and stone. Weaving together electro-acoustic instrumentation, voice, and immersive environmental sound, the album invites listeners into a subconscious space between everyday intimacy and the oceanic enigma from which all life unfolds.

Today we offer “Film Still / The Sea,” the entrancing opening track and tidal teaser of the album’s subconscious waters. A hypnotic piano motif anchors the piece in marine time, with drifting textures swirling around the duo’s subliminal speech. As abstracted guitar, synthesizers, and field recordings captured at ancient Delphi immerse the listener, a feeling of ceremonious enchantment sets the stage for the entrancing sonic world to come.

Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems emerges in its entirety on April 10, 2026, and is now available for pre-order in LP, Japanese import CD via Plancha, and digital editions.