This week’s best new songs roundup features Fire-Toolz’s overstimulated banger, Massive Attack and Tom Waits’ long-awaited linkup, and Tori Amos’ lesbian motorcyclist fiction.
Q&A: The journalist turned filmmaker sat down with Paste to discuss her semi-autobiographical sophomore feature and the strange experience of being on the other side of the tape recorder.
Paste Pick: The songs on Emily Moales’ latest album are stripped-back, psychedelic, and quietly thrilling in their futile struggles for agency in circumstances beyond her control.
The Brooklyn artist’s latest album is a suite of R&B, jazz, and reggae tunes for her to wax poetic on our relatively short lives and the transient nature of this mortal coil.