Elise Soutar
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Aug 10, 2026
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Empress Of: Dream House (opens the original)
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When Lorely Rodriguez sings as Empress Of, she can spin pop transcendence out of thin air. You can perhaps hear it most clearly on the 2016 Blood Orange track “Best to You,” where she practically steals the song from Dev Hynes with the crystalline immediacy of her voice, begging for a quick fix of a thrilling connection. Her voice is like an electric rush, all-consuming on one beat and gone the next. She has retained that impressive quality across several studio albums, and on her fifth record,
Sweeping Promises: You Say I Romanticize (opens the original)
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Even before he reportedly pulled a gun on the band who had hired him, the very concept of pop-opera madman producer Phil Spector working with the Ramones—a gloriously threadbare band by design—might have felt like a mismatch. Following the alleged stick-up, the fruit of their union arrived in the form of 1980’s End of the Century, a record that works by the skin of its teeth by pulling each instrument apart in the mix and layering each sound until the music towers over the band itself. Kansas-by
Roy Montgomery / Martha Skye Murphy: Nebular (opens the original)
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When London avant-pop artist Martha Skye Murphy asked experimental guitarist Roy Montgomery to contribute to her 2024 debut record, Um, he sent a recording of himself revving the engine of his 1968 Chrysler: the sound of a life in motion in another hemisphere. His playing on that record sounded like long-awaited sunlight finally emerging from her cloud cover, conjoining two existences that never physically touch. After those suggestions of distance, their new album Nebular—the pair’s first full-
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