Cat Power recommended music at The Quietus.

The Millions reviewed Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s collection Friday Black.

At Fluxblog, thoughts on new music from Julia Holter.

Franz Nicolay recalled New Orleans’s Mermaid Lounge at Punch.

There’s a playlist from Alicia Jo Rabins at Largehearted Boy.

At Morning Computer, Warren Ellis wrote about Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

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