KORDELYA’s futuristic electro-pop globalism can seize imaginations.

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KORDELYA’s futuristic electro-pop globalism can seize imaginations.

Jonathan Gonzaga/Courtesy of the Artist

Within the curiosity of offering a much-needed musical balm, we redirect the upcoming weekly playlists towards indie musicians who’re each reeling economically whereas coping with the emotional impression of our present scenario.

Generally we have to ponder deep ideas, however different occasions we have to work out our anxieties via bodily train on the dance flooring — or our residing rooms and kitchens, as it could be. We’re right here for you both method.

And for those who’re so inclined, we’re offering hyperlinks on the artist names under if you wish to purchase their music to maintain our musical neighborhood going as sturdy as doable. — Felix Contreras

“Tararear,” Las Nubes

Two of my favourite bands from Miami, Las Nubes and Palomino Blond, simply launched a dream cut up EP collectively; it calls for respect thrown on Miami’s criminally under-recognized scene. Las Nubes’ “Tararear” indulges in a riff as exquisitely sludgey as every thing on the band’s 2019 debut, SMVT, and a soothing hum, because the title guarantees.

In a dialog on Talkhouse, Las Nubes’ Ale Campos instructed Palomino Blond’s Carli Acosta: “I really feel that entire enterprise facet [of the music industry] at first for me was discouraging. I really feel prefer it’s so aggressive, and I really feel to lots of people it is a sport nearly.” In crises like the current one surrounding COVID-19, this sport rears its head most blatantly for impartial acts like these two. Although, for those who’re spending extra time indoors, this EP is the right soundtrack for an extended afternoon in your bed room, ready for one thing bigger than us to heal. —Stefanie Fernández

Ana Tijoux, “Antifa Dance”

The titular observe of Ana Tijoux‘s upcoming album Antifa Dance (her first since 2014’s Vengo) arrives on the present intersection of world pandemic and the specter of financial collapse; a dance that calls in equal half to “Cántalo suave / Lucha de clase.” “Dealing with authoritarianism, unrelenting hatred for the opposite, we once more return to ‘Artwork,’ with all its pressure … Artwork that responds in dance, an organized motion of gorgeous riot,” Tijoux says. The video, which incorporates appearances from Chilean artist-activists Álex Anwandter and Tata Barahona, is a retropunk imaginative and prescient of an inclusive post-apocalypse; one which colours the vacuum left by the detonated world behind it. —Stefanie Fernández

La Doña, “Cuando Se Van”

“Cuando Se Van,” a brand new observe off La Doña‘s long-awaited debut EP Algo Nuevo, is titled after a query and an announcement from the individuals of San Francisco. The query: “When is that this tech bubble, when is that this trade gonna depart us?” as she instructed NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro this weekend. But “Cuando se van” can be a promise that they are going to.

“Sueño con terremotos / La ciudad pa nosotros,” La Doña sings. “Sueño con temblores / Y ellos se van.” With the language of pure disasters, older than any of Silicon Valley’s glass and metal, she wills it to be so. The music’s conventional, lilting trumpet melody infused with a reggaeton backbeat is a storm of outdated and new, of individuals reclaiming their land. —Stefanie Fernández

KORDELYA, “Acero”

In simply 27 minutes, KORDELYA‘s Mal Hecha burns via its 9 tracks like a match. The impartial Mexican American singer melds a futuristic electro-pop globalism (see “Pedazo De”) with warped entice beats and Latin American and Mexican regionalisms (“Odio que no soy de tal palo tal astilla” on the ballad “Mal Hecha” and all of “Metiche,” respectively). The result’s this almost flawless, meticulously executed imaginative and prescient. —Stefanie Fernández

Blue Mary & Tomasa del Actual, “Peligrosa”

Some say Dangerous Bunny presaged this era of social distancing with “Yo Perreo Sola.” But the ladies of neoperreo have been creating progressive solo perreo anthems for years now. Style icon Tomasa del Actual groups up with the upcoming fellow Chilena Blue Mary for “Peligrosa,” a spark plug of a music for all of the bandoleras caught inside. —Stefanie Fernández