Lars Gotrich

M. Sage pours a bubble bath bog of komische bliss, Deathprod returns with his first album in 15 years and Madrid's Cristina Quesada channels Saint Etienne on this week's playlist.

"Sat by a Tree" stars actor and comedian Aparna Nancherla as... a decomposing corpse, in celebration of life. Very Deacon.

The great and good Kesha just wants to party hard before she gets to heaven. Who are we to judge?

Music moves culture forward. Auditory illusions, hellish black metal and meditative drum-dance music mix together on this week's playlist.

Listen to playlist of music podcasts, featuring 2 Live Crew's battle for freedom of speech, the '90s Christian punk renaissance a Pakistani sibling duo's New Wave obsession.

Real Life Rock & Roll Band applies minimalist techniques to its countrified motorik-emo and essential reissues rescue El Wali's Sarahan desert jams and Patrick Cowley's synth rippers.

FKA twigs' self-directed video for the quiet, spacious "home with you" takes us from the club to the serenity of home.

Iowa Dream, out Nov. 15, offers to peel back another layer of Arthur Russell's idiosyncratic sense of sound. A newly released single from the record is extremely promising.

In addition to fronting The Muffs, The Pandoras and The Coolies, Shattuck lent her talents to a wide swath of some of L.A.'s most-beloved bands.

Gatecreeper's no-frills death metal offers a masterclass in buzzsaw songcraft, Twink returns to apocalyptic psych and Gridlink's Takafumi Matsubara gets a worldwide assist on his solo debut.

Soak up an insane frenzy of high-kick histrionics, pounded pianos and berserker bagpipes, with a confetti cannon thrown in for good measure.

After two albums and a live record that grieved the death of his wife Geneviève Castrée, Phil Elverum not so much returns, but revisits an older Mount Eerie to reshape the elastic meaning of love.

On this week's playlist, Koenjihyakkei's operatic punk-prog opus gets a vital reissue, Lacing bursts a sweet melody through cloudy shoegaze and a Swiss-Togo duo injects noise into the riddim.

Nurse With Wound's influential list of 291 experimental artists finally gets the compilation treatment, plus a toxic banger from noise-rock trio Buildings and rhapsodic rave music by Octo Octa.

"The idea of diving back into music after so much time and personal change was really intimidating to me for a while," says Moore of creating her new album, which she began working on early this year.

Originally written for the 2001 album Reveal, this 2004 version was recorded in Nassau, Bahamas.

Angel Olsen has become a master of characters who ache to move forward, but are pulled to an ever-present past.

Feedback-worshiping drone, tranced-out occult rock, gamelan music played by elephants — Aquarius Records embodied the idea that you can always dig deeper for weirder, louder music.

Fever Ray, Björk and The Knife have combined into a single organism, mangling and modifying each other's songs.

If summer's over, nobody told Camila Cabello because the first two singles from Romance contains the heat of a thousand passions.