Infinity Crush“Minnesota”Virtual Heaven (out now on Joy Void)Caroline White’s breathtaking new project is full of subtly stunning, stripped-back, resonant folk-adjacent music. Each of the disc’s 13 tracks deserve your time, but the intimate “Minnesota” is an early favorite. Like many of Virtual Heaven’s tracks, it plays out more like a poem than a pop song — chorus free and linear — laying out the intoxicating, yet uncertain early days of a crush. This record deserves so much more press than … →

Devon Welsh“Somebody Loves You”True Love (10.11 on You Are Accepted)Everything you need to know about Devon Welsh’s penetrating, majical* music is right there in the title of his record label, “You Are Accepted.” For his entire career, the Montreal vocalist’s main mission is to connect with his audience in the most visceral way possible. With stripped-back production and intense lyrics, Welsh’s songs make direct eye contact with you, hellbent on breaking down the barriers between us and tapping into something … →

Burna Boy“Anybody”African Giant (out now on Atlantic)Though this weightless single has been out for a month or so, I wanted to use it as an excuse to wax lyrical about the Nigerian vocalist’s masterful new LP. For the last few years, Burna has been dropping potent, wavey material that fuses Afrobeats, R&B, hip-hop, and dancehall for a sound that sets trends, not follows them. And “African Giant” is his crowning achievement so far. “Anybody” is a perfect distillation of the … →