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New York native Danielle Johnson first gained notoriety under the moniker of Computer Magic in the 2010s. A true DIY artist - singer, songwriter, producer, graphic designer - she opted to change her name to Danz CM around 2020. Danz, a nickname for Danielle, and CM, a vestige of her Computer Magic origins. "Bontempi Pop 3" features an Italian toy organ.

SYML is the Welsh word for "simple", but it's also the solo project of Seattle musician and producer Brian Fennell, whose music explores the instincts that draw us toward sanctuary: sometimes it's a place, and sometimes it's a person. His latest is "I Was Stone", a swirling, stark and emotional contemplation of a love lost.

The new album from Berlin-based, Danish-born singer, pianist, composer Agnes Obel is a deep dive into the impact that motherhood had on her creative process. Dedicated to her daughter, the album draws inspiration from the poetry of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna, the world's first known author, the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Emanuele Coccia, and Danish pop.

Kate Bollinger's Shop Girl is a set of "songs from an imagined musical". Smartly produced by Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Weyes Blood, Tyler Ballgame), the 5-song EP was inspired by the '70s kitsch of Lynsey De Paul, Kate Bush and a love for the 2006 rock opera Ribbons of War by the Philadelphia band The Extraordinaires, a favorite of Kate's while growing up.

A new compilation, decades in the making, brings together 25 pioneering experiments between musicians working with pre-Columbian instruments and artists working with more modern sounds. Compiled by Carlos Icaza and dublab's Mark “Frosty” McNeill, the collection features a mesmerizing work from Antonio Zepeda and Eugenio Toussaint called "Viento de Lluvia".