8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Ice Spice, Klein, Wand, and More

Klein continues a string of low-key, boundary-pushing compositions with Marked, an eerie suite that glides between ambient drone, dinner-party jazz, doom metal, and broken hip-hop beats as if through a haunted house of the avant-garde. Its dissociative collage of searing noise and alienated vocal snippets feels at once like commentary and escapism, equally suited to headphones in bed or a dark room in an art museum.

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Wand: Vertigo [Drag City]

Los Angeles rock band Wand are back—this time as a quartet—with their new album Vertigo. Evan Backer, Evan Burrows, Robbie Cody, and Cory Hanson cut the record in their own studio, where they captured and collaged over 50 hours of sessions, many of which were improvised. Wand also produced and mixed the LP, while Backer arranged a string and wind section featuring viola, cello, violin, contrabass, flute, trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba, saxophone, and more. The band shared lead single “Smile” in May, followed by “JJ” in June. Vertigo is Wand’s first full-length since Laughing Matter in 2019.

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