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13 hours ago | pastemagazine.com | Brendan Menapace

A long time ago, George Carlin told us that there were seven words you can’t say on television. I have heard every single one on television in my lifetime, as TV has changed dramatically since those puritan days of 1972. But a few weeks ago, I heard the words “Mannequin Pussy” spoken on a talk show for the first time.

1 day ago | pastemagazine.com | Matt Mitchell

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1 day ago | pastemagazine.com | Matt Mitchell

A cool thing about Mei Semones is that she operates in a league of her own. You may find another musician with parallel ambitions, sure, but the likelihood of you finding an album that sounds like Animaru is paper-thin. This is music that ignores genre lines and embraces the margins of conventionality. But Semones’ history with the craft spans more than a decade. In high school in Ann Arbor, she was a jazz guitarist tinkering in neo-soul bands.

1 day ago | pastemagazine.com | Matt Mitchell

It’s been a year since we last heard from Erika de Casier, the Portugal-born, Copenhagen-bred singer and producer. Her 2024 album Still was a love letter to the 2000s—to the prime days of Aaliyah, Mýa, and mid-career Janet Jackson, where her singing was very head-register, vibrating, and close-mic’d. So much of it was light and beautiful, sweetly and sensually entrenched in the not-so-yesterday flourishes of Black club music and Afrofuturism.

3 days ago | pastemagazine.com | Matt Mitchell

Two years ago, I ranked every Pink Floyd album from worst to best. It wasn’t a hard task, as it’s clear that the band has about seven, maybe eight average to below-average records. Obscured by Clouds, their final album before The Dark Side of the Moon, is the blurred line between good and great, revealing an impressive run of releases spanning from Dark Side through The Wall. Oh, and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is in there, too.