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“Auratones of desire” is the next swirling vision from Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession.

“Auratones of desire” is a study in contradictions, a “classic psychological story of projection.” Chang's intimate vocal melodies are guided by half Stravinsky, half noir strings, creeping trepidatiously along until the suspense crescendoes. As is often the case in psychological thrillers, the figure that “Auratones of desire” is about is really just another facet of the self.

The single arrives alongside a surreal video by Chang and filmmaker Annie Horner, featuring Chang exploring dreamlike settings across several scenes and existential situations.

Frances Chang’s been thinking about confession will be released on August 21, 2026.

Cyano is Emily A. Sprague’s fifth solo studio album, a meditation on visibility, psychic transformation, and worlds beyond our knowing.

In Cyano, Sprague builds an intricate world, expanding a sonic register that is both familiar and viscerally new, reflecting the synthesist and composer’s internal register with mirrors to alternate realms. Cyano was conjured through ideas of an imagined planet whose inhabitants are rebuilding forbidden capacities for expressivity and emotional connection. An arc of faithful gestures, the album revels in configurations of connective possibility, where shadow and vision meet incisive truth.

Today we share “Sing To,” a cool wind gush, a rush of revolving doors. The piece builds a soft clearing around Sprague's vocals, her quiet admissions intertwining with delicate synth arcs that effortlessly cloud feeling and reason. What emerges is a broader space of acceptance, a warming of new life and grief.

“Sing To” is accompanied by a video directed by Sprague’s life and creative partner V. Haddad. An abstracted narrative of two people connecting through memory, “Sing To” explores the science fiction lore of Cyano through video art and documentary.

Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano will be released on October 2, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

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.