Twin Peaks | 1:00
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Circulatory System | 1:55
Brooklyn songwriter Lorely Rodriguez attracted Pitchfork’s attention with “Hat Trick,” a bubbling, gauzy single where she sustains a late-summer-evening mood with just a couple of synths and pedals and the upper register of her ghostly voice. The recent “Realize You,” on the other hand, collides her ethereal singing with cacophonous percussion in a way that makes the track sound like a slightly outre take on freestyle, the soap-operatic dance music that dominated New York and Miami airwaves some 20 years ago. —Maura Johnston
Pusha T | 4:15
Something about Merrill Garbus is just so insanely likeable. As the lead singer, main songwriter, and central personality of Tune-Yards, she brings infectious fun and manic, unself-conscious energy to every song. The band has always been about Garbus’s idiosyncratic vocals first and foremost, and that’s more true than ever on its most recent album, this spring’s Nikki Nack (4AD). Not until I first saw Tune-Yards live did I fully appreciate Garbus’s finesse and prowess—to bring her songs to life onstage, she records vocal sounds, drums, and ukulele on the spot, building a complex matrix of loops and beats that forms the backdrop for her own singing as well as the bass, synth, and vocals of Nate Brenner (her only consistent collaborator) and the contributions of her touring band (which in this case consists of three backup singers, one of whom also adds more percussion). The album’s lead single, “Water Fountain,” is so danceable you hardly realize you’re bopping your head along to a verse about “a blood-soaked dollar.” —Brianna Wellen
The Field | 6:45
