On March 23, 2022, Slavic American experimental pop artist Zola Jesus released “Lost,” the lead single for her forthcoming album Arkhon. As Nika Rosa Danilova describes on her Patreon page, “i wrote lost after chopping up … Read the rest
Land of Talk and the Intimacy of Healing
At close to one year of being in LA, I went to see Land of Talk live for the first time in five years. As I’ve written about before, Land of Talk are the band that I’ve grown up … Read the rest
Placebo, Nostalgia, and the Pre-Pandemic Past
As many of our masks start to literally and figuratively come off again, we are entering a new moment of pandemic nostalgia, of the desire for a time when our personal—and geopolitical—lives didn’t feel as complicated as they do now. … Read the rest
FKA twigs, Pandemic Dating, and Sex after Abuse
On January 14, 2022, FKA twigs dropped her first mixtape. “CAPRISONGS is my journey back to myself through my amazing collaborators and friends,” twigs declares in an Instagram post from January 6th. At the end of the post, twigs … Read the rest
2021 in Review: Anxiety, Family, and Community in the Long Pandemic
It was another hard pandemic year—and the pop music around us often reflected that. Our first full (calendar) year of the pandemic, pop both musically and narratively carried forward our feelings of anxiety and isolation but also yearnings for connection … Read the rest