From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history.

The rangy and enigmatic singer-songwriter is fully indifferent to fitting anywhere specific on the canvas of American folk — or, really, anywhere.

In this tactile novel, the celebrated Norwegian musician Jenny Hval places two entropic lovers within a converted Australian brewery to explore sexuality, decay and freedom.

The beauty in Tim Hecker's music is the way the sounds disintegrate, slip through one's fingers and die.

Tara Rodgers has spent her career investigating the world of electronic sound, while advocating for equal representation within its community. A new suite of songs smoothly continues that work.

Of the life of an artist — particularly for women of color — the fearless Fatima Al Qadiri says: "Everything can be an act of joy and beauty until it gets put out. Then it can get dangerous."

The one-night stand gets a redux on the debut single from her forthcoming LP.

Yiyun Li's first book of nonfiction is an unusual memoir — one that examines her depression and suicidal thoughts by drifting through her memories and thoughts on literature.

Killer Mike and El-P continue to out-muse each other in a supergroup that somehow seems to get better, louder, and more pertinent since their start in 2013.

Producers Galcher Lustwerk and Alvin Aronson make music as ceaseless, freakish and leisurely as a belt of warmed air through the endless LA summer.

Solmaz Sharif's collection, Look, has just been shortlisted for a National Book Award. Playing on the military language in a Department of Defense lexicon, it's a wrenching look at war and duality.

The first single from Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not is the band distilled: a systematic reconfiguration of the Jurassic, juvenile sound it's always owned.

At this point, the history of New Order is mythic. Like something Ovidian or divined by celestial heat, it is a creation story that begins in total darkness: "the dim rubble that was Joy Division fell, cleared, and gave way to a new earth— a ...