SZA’s “SOS,” the title track and opening track for the album of the same name, begins with a call for help. After a morse code distress call beeps off, a group of women’s backup vocals harmonize to sing, … Read the rest
Essays
Zola Jesus, Getting Lost, and Coming Home
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 through … 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