Now Sound favorites shared by your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing.

Reflecting on an entire years worth of music is always a tricky endeavor. What sounds stood out through the dense musical fog of the last year? Which records actually spent the most time on our turntables? Musical memory can be amorphous and unreliable when so many of our favorite records tend to distort our sense of time and space… Luckily, here at In Sheep’s Clothing we’re able to pool our listening habits into something of a collective whole. Below, a selection of our personal favorite new releases, in no particular order, selected by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing.

For those following along… This year, we were proud to have been able to release a few new works on our own imprint ISC Hi-Fi Selects:

Konoma – Japanese guitarist Takuro Okada’s spiritual soul-jazz drawing from Theaster Gates’ concept of Afro-Mingei. A co-release with our friends at Temporal Drift.

Remixes – A collection of dancefloor-leaning remixes of New York shoegaze legends DIIV from Minor Science, Mount Kimbie, Daniel Avery, and upsammy.

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• ARTIST: Westerman
• TITLE: A Jackal’s Wedding
• LABEL: Partisan Records
• STYLE: Indie
• LOCATION: Milan

Westerman’s A Jackal’s Wedding stands out as one of the year’s most fully realized artistic statements. It’s a cohesive, start to finish listening experience that rewards close attention. Under the deft production guidance of Marta Salogni, the album achieves a balance between technical sophistication and quiet restraint. Each song is exquisitely constructed, resonating with an emotional and physical intensity that lingers long after the final note. – Bryan

• ARTIST: Alpha Maid
• TITLE: Is this a queue
• LABEL: AD 93
• STYLE: Experimental / Rock / Pop
• LOCATION: UK

Discovered during a late night Bandcamp quest, this debut album from the London-based future force radiates pure vibe, pairing a non-linear, heavy production style with an unrestrained, freestyle vocal approach. I found myself replaying it right after the first listen and then again and again ever since. – Bryan

• ARTIST: Jas Stade
• TITLE: Smoke & Mirrors
• LABEL: Self-released
• STYLE: Guitar / Folk / Rock
• LOCATION: Oakland

This electric fingerstyle guitar album weaves inventive melodic lines and subtle harmonic shifts, channeling those in between emotions that are hard to name. With a sound all its own it evokes a night time pastoral that feels both mysterious and beautiful. – Cate

• ARTIST: THiQ
• TITLE: The New Cats
• LABEL: Grape Street Inc.
• STYLE: New Wave / Art Rock
• LOCATION: Los Angeles

This new wave anomaly, comprised of groovy instrumentals on guitar, synth, and bass, and occasionally a voice in your head of sorts, calls to my mind a late night party, a cat sauntering down the sidewalk, a car driving slowly by, a streetlight changing color and glowing in the dark. – Cate

• ARTIST: Ohh
• TITLE: Now and Never
• LABEL: Isla
• STYLE: Cumbia / Dub / Ambient
• LOCATION: Mexico City

On Now and Never, Ohh aka DJ Double Oh! Blends elements of Cumbia, Dub, and Ambient to craft humid, dreamlike pieces that gradually blossom and wilt track to track. Canopied by warm synth pads and textured sound design, sedated Latin rhythms emerge to heighten the exuberant mood. Standout tracks such as “La Fiesta Eterna” and “Abre, Corazón” cradle the listener in tender melodies, and the slow cumbia rhythm, which best showcases this impressive collection of neo-tropical psychedelia. – John

• ARTIST: Ale Hop And Titi Bakorta
• TITLE: Mapambazuko
• LABEL: Nyege Nyege Tapes
• STYLE: Afro-Latin / Experimental
• LOCATION: Uganda

Peruvian-born Berlin-based artist Ale Hop teams up with Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta to create possibly the first avant-garde Soukous records? Joyous fast-paced guitar lines ride along the clacks and clangs of far-out synthesizers, as rhythms soar into the 135-145 bpm territory, crescendoing into exuberant bewilderment. This maximalist approach allows the music to teeter on the edge of collapse before settling into its own pleasant chaos. – John

• ARTIST: Florian TM Zeisig
• TITLE: A New Life
• LABEL: Stroom
• STYLE: Ambient / New Age
• LOCATION: Berlin

Florian T M Zeisig’s A New Life can be described as “environmental new age.” It works particularly well at low volumes in the morning with a window open, in the same way Hiroshi Yoshimura’s environmental ambient was meant to be experienced. A quiet beauty unfolds in these seven sketches. – Jonny

• ARTIST: WINO-E
• TITLE: WINO-E
• LABEL: Wah Wah Wino
• STYLE: Leftfield Dance
• LOCATION: Ireland

Hearing the previews for WINO-E, a vinyl-only set of lost tracks from the illustrious Wah Wah Wino crew, instantly brought us back to that moment a decade ago in the dance-music vinyl renaissance, when a new unnamed producer seemed to surface every month and the focus was solely on the music, not the aesthetics or credits. All killer, no filler. Music for the head and the floor. (For those interested and reading this we have a few copies on hand to sell. DM the shop to pick one up!) – Jonny

• ARTIST: Sara Udon
• TITLE: II = II
• LABEL: Modern Love
• STYLE: Experimental / Electronic
• LOCATION: Japan

Earlier this year, Australian duo CS + Kreme announced suddenly that the project was over. Quite sad — but luckily Conrad + Sam have left us with one last morsel of their sonic alchemy, this time in a horizontal II = II format alongside Japanese duo KAKUHAN, comprised of electronic artist Koshiro Hino (YPY) and cellist Yuki Nakagawa. Jagged beats meet droning cello atmospherics for a delightfully ominous listen that lands closer to the rhythmic futurism of KAKUHAN’s 2022 album Metal Zone, but still retains that sense of ritual seance music that we’ve all come to love from CS + Kreme. We’ll surely continue unraveling this music for decades to come… This one’s not available online for streaming online, but you can hear clips on Boomkat! – Phil

• ARTIST: YHWH Nailgun
• TITLE: 45 Pounds
• LABEL: AD 93
• STYLE: Experimental / Rock
• LOCATION: Japan

45 Pounds is a killer debut from experimentalists YHWH Nailgun — 21 fresh, arresting minutes of raw, tightly controlled chaos. It’s so good I usually run it back-to-back. I first saw them at Making Time in Philadelphia, and their set was easily the highlight of the weekend. Their commanding presence, meticulously dialed percussion, and bursts of explosive vocals had us all locked in. Favorite tracks: “Sickle Walk” and “Castrato Raw (Fullback) – Radha

• ARTIST: Bhairavi Raman & Nanthesh Sivarajah
• TITLE: Syncretic
• LABEL: Efficient Space
• STYLE: Indian Classical / Carnatic
• LOCATION: Australia

Syncretic is a gorgeous debut from Australian duo Bhairavi Raman and Nanthesh Sivarajah where carnatic and contemporary coalesce. Each track captures so much emotion, and their take on “Thunbam Nergayil”—inspired by a Tamil poem about sorrow and healing—really moved me. I also had the joy of creating the album’s cover art, which made this album feel even more special. – Radha

• ARTIST: The Necks
• TITLE: Disquiet
• LABEL: Northern Spy
• STYLE: Jazz / Ambient
• LOCATION: Australia

Those of you fortunate enough to have a little time off over the holidays, or who face a long travel day, would do well to set aside a 3-hour window and give Disquiet your full attention. For nearly four decades the Necks have followed their own path in jazz, an Australian trio known for longform improvisations that evolve through patience, texture and an almost telepathic sense of ensemble balance. The album’s four tracks stretch across three CDs and run from 26 to 74 minutes, long arcs shaped by patience rather than plan.

Chris Abrahams (piano, electric organ), Lloyd Swanton (bass) and Tony Buck (percussion) continue to build pieces that find their own center without locking into strict repetition. “Rapid Eye Movement” drifts through piano shards and organ haze until a pulse gathers and pulls the piece forward. “Ghost Net,” the seventy-plus-minute centerpiece, holds a delicate, wobbling equilibrium that somehow sustains itself through collective instinct rather than metronomic pulse.

“Causeway” delivers the album’s sharpest turn. Around 9 minutes into the 26-minute work, a shimmering synth drone slips in and overtakes the unfolding piano melody and primes a drum-and-bass implosion that drops the piece into a deeper register, driven by Abrahams on both piano and electric organ, their lines braided into a single rising current. Depending on mood and whatever static your mind drags along, details you missed before flare into focus. – Randall

• ARTIST: SML
• TITLE: How You Been
• LABEL: International Anthem
• STYLE: Jazz / Improvisation / Krautrock
• LOCATION: Los Angeles

Built from live recordings and riveted together with intention, How You Been captures SML in full propulsion: a groove-locked quintet finding shape in the blur. The music mutates and surges, led by Anna Butterss (electric bass) and Booker Stardrum (drums, percussion), who anchor even the most abstract passages with physical force. Around them, Jeremiah Chiu (modular synth, percussion), Josh Johnson (saxophone, electronics), and Gregory Uhlmann (guitar, effects) twist circuitry and melody into shimmering patterns. Recorded at venues including Zebulon, Public Records and the Empty Bottle, the performances were later cracked open and reassembled by the band into something newly alive. It’s a document of warped tones and rhythmic heat, of interplay that holds its center even as the edges bend.
“Taking Out the Trash” sounds like a joyful collision between Penguin Cafe Orchestra and mid-’70s Afrobeat. “Old Mythh” is a feast of percussion, sax, and squiggly synth. “Moving Walkway” is meditative, dubby, and sublimely psychedelic. All three reflect the quintet’s intuitive cohesion and communal sense of time. – Randall

• ARTIST: СОЮЗ / SOYUZ
• TITLE: Krok
• LABEL: Mr. Bongo
• STYLE: Soft Rock / Soul-Jazz
• LOCATION: Poland

СОЮЗ’s KROK is a soul‑jazz masterpiece that transforms the band’s story of cultural exchange and creative reinvention into lush, funky, and adventurous compositions. The music is rooted in jazz, folk, and global pop traditions, with melodies that feel both intimate and expansively cinematic. The album draws from the band’s journey from Belarus to Warsaw, and was recorded primarily in São Paulo, Brazil, and refined in both Stockholm and Warsaw. Sung in band lead’s Alex Chumak’s native Belarusian, gives the tracks a profound emotional depth and compliments the songs more dreamy textures. Standout tracks like the heartfelt “Lingua Do Mundo” and the radiant “Cichi Karahod” are transportive with an inescapable romance. Throughout, KROK marries rich arrangements with a poignant celebration of resilience and artistic expansion. – Tana

• ARTIST: Shoko Igarshi
• TITLE: Kokoro no Kibi
• LABEL: Totalism
• STYLE: Techno / IDM / Experimental
• LOCATION: Japan

On Kokoro no Kibi, Shoko Igarashi third studio release translates the Japanese concept of 心の機微, the delicate nuances of the heart, into an immersive soundworld where analog synthesis, sparse improvisation, and gentle harmonic shifts evoke quiet emotional texture. Across twelve instrumental movements named after hues in a traditional Japanese color compendium, each tied to moods, seasons, or symbolic meanings, the album unfolds like a seasonal arc, moving from spring light to winter stillness with subtle evolution rather than dramatic gestures. Igarashi blends electronic elements with occasional acoustic breaths, from processed soprano sax to punctuating piano, resisting easy categorization and situating herself at the intersection of Japanese ambient tradition and contemporary experimental composition. Suffused with glowing stillness, Kokoro no Kibi rewards patient listening with a gradual build, transforming restraint into enrapturing intensity and reaffirming Igarashi’s singular voice in instrumental electronic. – Tana

• ARTIST: Annahstasia
• TITLE: Tether
• LABEL: Drink Sum Wtr
• STYLE: Soul / Pop / Folk
• LOCATION: Los Angeles / New York

Annahstasia’s full-length debut, Tether — released on the consistently inspiring label drink sum wtr — carries a lived-in patience, a record made slowly, until every song felt true. The Los Angeles–based singer, songwriter, and guitarist recorded the album live at Valentine Studios, bringing together producers Jason Lader (Frank Ocean, ANOHNI, Lana Del Rey), Andrew Lappin (Cassandra Jenkins, L’Rain), and Aaron Liao (Liv.e, Raveena, Moses Sumney). The collective restraint allows the performances to breathe, bringing the artist’s voice to the center. “Slow,” her duet with London-based Nigerian artist Obongjayar, moves with easy intimacy, while poet aja monet joins on “All is. Will Be. As it Was.” “Villain” swells toward gospel catharsis; “Silk and Velvet” sharpens into punk minimalism. Through it all, Annahstasia’s voice stays at the center — warm, unhurried, luminous without gloss, with a quiver that recalls Nina Simone or early Joan Armatrading, carrying both ache and authority.

• ARTIST: Domenique Dumont
• TITLE: Deux Paradis
• LABEL: Antinote
• STYLE: Synth-Pop / Downtempo / Dub
• LOCATION: France

Domenique Dumont’s “Deux Paradis” is a secret weapon for any DJ or selector looking to set the perfect scene… Sun melting into the horizon, the poolside crowd easing into twilight, the night humming with promise. Drifting effortlessly between dub and french disco, it feels like Kevin Parker caught in a Moon Safari inspired reverie. Each track opens another doorway on a guided tour through Château Le Vibe. – Bryan

• ARTIST: Crash Richard
• TITLE: Sensitive Devil
• LABEL: Community Music
• STYLE: Alternative Pop
• LOCATION: Los Angeles

Crash Richard’s “Sensitive Devil” is one of those rare albums that slips under your skin and refuses to leave. Kinda like Crash himself when he first moved to LA and took on the moniker. It’s easily among the year’s standout releases, an intoxicating mix of style, musicianship, and emotional restraint that rewards repeated listens. What anchors the record is its rhythmic precision and understated groove. The drums attention to timing and texture isn’t coincidence. The album’s producer, Kosta Galanopoulos, one half of the duo Rio Kosta and as Richard’s longtime drummer, handles the production duties with Crash on this masterpiece of an album. – Bryan

• ARTIST: Ioa Beduneau
• TITLE: Melodies Pour Clairons
• LABEL: Marionette
• STYLE: Electro-Acoustic / Musique Concrète
• LOCATION: France

This debut album by modular synthesist and sound designer takes synthesis to new realms creating electronic music that somehow resembles the familiar echoes of nature itself or a strange impressionism of an alien world so preternatural you couldn’t have imagined it. – Cate

• ARTIST: Roméo Poirier
• TITLE: Off the Record
• LABEL: faitiche
• STYLE: Plunderphonics / Ambient / Collage
• LOCATION: Belgium

Romeo’s second album on Faitiche Off The Record, is a stunning ode to the recording studio. Sourcing over one thousand incidental audio files, Romeo skillfully whittles, chops, and collages these sounds into fourteen neatly placed vignettes. Microphone tests, hushed room recordings, count-ins, and outtakes are adjusted and reassembled to build a distinct sonic world that is whimsical, mysterious, and at times, quite humorous. For me, this one ranks quite high in the plunderphonic canon. – John

• ARTIST: Big Hands
• TITLE: Thauma
• LABEL: Marionette
• STYLE: Electronic / World / Jazz / Bass
• LOCATION: London

Andrea Ottomani is a purveyor of innovative electronic music, as made evident through his label Baroque Sunburst. His first full-length release as Big Hand’s shows him blending these elements into a sonic world grounded by the natural world. Field recordings are present throughout, with the sound of birds blending into the rhythm of a hand shaker, cicadas, and water providing texture. Bells and hand drums form entrancing polyrhythms. The vocal and saxophone appearances provide a soulful fourth-world touch. The music remains anchored by re-contextualized themes of bass music, dub techno, and IDM. As a whole, the record feels like it’s telling a story or guiding a ritual, which, for me, made for pleasant repeated listens. – John

• ARTIST: Lexx
• TITLE: Rhythm of Love
• LABEL: Lexx Music
• STYLE: Downtempo / Soul / Balearic
• LOCATION: Switzerland

Lexx’s fourth full-length arrived just in time for summer this year. Rhythm of Love feels like the Swiss selector’s love letter to the West Coast sound, blending a little reggae, a little R&B/boogie, a little Balearic, and all things feel-good. It’s also nice to hear him branch out with original vocals for the first time on “Get 2 Know U.” – Jonny

• ARTIST: Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force
• TITLE: Khadim
• LABEL: Ndagga
• STYLE: Mblax / Dub / Techno
• LOCATION: Germany / Senegal

We had the honor of hosting Mark Ernestus for an open air event in downtown Los Angeles last June. The dub techno pioneer had just released Khadim, the first record from his Ndagga Rhythm Force project in nearly a decade. The 4-track LP captures the spirit of the Senegalese group’s heavily improvised live performances in recorded form. Featuring just two sabar drummers (previous releases had up to 12), vocalist Mbene Diatta Seck, and Mark Ernestus (Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Hard Wax) at the controls, the recordings are much more spacious, deep, and perhaps closer to the sonic world of Rhythm & Sound. It’s a fresh development on an already forward-thinking project from one of the most influential figures in contemporary electronic music… “I didn’t want to simply continue with the same formula,” Ernestus says. “I preferred to wait for a new approach.” – Phil

• ARTIST: False Aralia
• TITLE: Vehicular
• LABEL: False Aralia
• STYLE: Dub / Techno / Latin
• LOCATION: ???

We’re always delighted to see a new False Aralia arrive in our mailboxes, and Vehicular is easily one of our favorites of the set. Continuing on the vocal themes of Zero Key and Externalism, this time the mysterious IS calls on the voice of Lucas Deleon, who you might recognize from those amazing gamelan-infused records on Mana. Something like Latin sophisticated pop meets dub techno, Vehicular opens on what might be the label’s closest rendition of a traditional song form, with those initial sparse elements then continually broken down, obscured, and processed through IS’ singular digital manipulations until they become a gorgeous, shapeless swirling ambience. – Phil

• ARTIST: emer
• TITLE: Fog
• LABEL: Short Span
• STYLE: Ambient / Dub / Soul
• LOCATION: Belgium

Shadowy dubwise-soul excursions, emer’s Fog is a contemporary ambient-infused take on dub. Behind the mixing console, Brussells-based Marija Rasa abstracts her own murky vocals, granular textures, and lilting grooves into shifting sub-heavy soundscapes. Like the origins of dub, space and time manipulation are the key controllers here elevating or submerging the sound into deep dream states. Highly recommended for fans of Jabu, Tara Clerkin Trio, Gi Gi, and the Motion Ward camp! – Phil

• ARTIST: Son of Chi
• TITLE: We Carry Eden
• LABEL: Music from Memory
• STYLE: Fourth World / Spoken Word
• LOCATION: Netherlands

Son of Chi unfolds as a two-part, long-form journey, layering spoken word, field recordings, and drifting drones with touches of dub, jazz, fourth world, and ambient music. The album is textural and deeply contemplative – one I enjoy listening to while I paint. I love the different vocal loops threaded throughout the record – prayers, dialogue, etc. It’s meditative, spiritual, and otherworldly – gorgeous record from MFM! – Radha

• ARTIST: µ-Ziq
• TITLE: Manzana
• LABEL: Balmat
• STYLE: Electronic / IDM
• LOCATION: UK

Mike Paradinas has long treated electronic music as a living archive, a place where discarded machines and half-forgotten ideas remain active rather than obsolete. Known as u-ziq and as the founder of the Planet Mu label, Paradinas released two Balmat records this year, 1979 and Manzana, which sit in close dialogue. Balmat’s release notes describe Manzana as “a companion record of sorts to 1979,” and the pairing bears that out. Both lean toward soft-edged, patient ambient synth work. Across their combined 28 tracks, each piece feels self-contained yet porous, capable of holding both calm and unease.
1979 favors aerodynamic synth lines, smooth and forward-moving, with the occasional shard of tension cutting through. Radox shimmers with Aphex-adjacent synth textures, ambient ideas unfolding in a measured, metronomic flow. Houzz 14 hums with early 1990s energy, its four-on-the-floor pulse landing as continuity rather than throwback. Manzana moves inward, with Plinth anchoring the record in low-end drone and slowly unfurling melodic light. The pairing quietly argues against linear progress. Some ideas aren’t outdated so much as unfinished, and these records suggest how much remains to be explored once speed and novelty step aside. – Randall

• ARTIST: William Tyler
• TITLE: Time Indefinite
• LABEL: Psychic Hotline
• STYLE: Experimental / Ambient / Folk
• LOCATION: Tennessee

William Tyler’s Time Indefinite opens with what sounds like a haunted transmission — looped guitar phrases circling like shortwave signals, barely tethered to land. The Nashville guitarist, known for his work with Silver Jews, Lambchop, and solo albums like Modern Country and Goes West, shifts here into a more spectral mode. While still rooted in melody and mood, these pieces lean into field recordings, decayed textures, and ambient drift. Tyler described the album as “almost like a Southern hauntology,” and Time Indefinite lives up to that description. The record often feels like it’s tuning between stations — fragments of AM radio, tape hiss, treated piano, and field captures rising and receding with a ghostly logic. These are compositions that suggest shape without traditional songcraft, glancing off memory and place in a way that’s reflective rather than nostalgic. The result is an immersive work that deepens with attention — a record that feels lived‑in, porous to time, and compelling not because it resolves, but because it keeps you listening. – Randall

• ARTIST: Nico Goeris
• TITLE: Music Belongs To The Universe
• LABEL: Leaving Records
• STYLE: Ambient
• LOCATION: California

Nico Georis’ Music Belongs To The Universe is a meditative ambient journey that dissolves the boundary between pastoral warmth and desert minimalism, conjuring a soundscape as expansive and sun-bleached as the landscapes that inspired it. Recorded between 2021 and 2023, the album’s uncluttered and revelatory piano and keyboard centered compositions feels more divinely channeled than deliberately composed, inviting listeners into a state of heightened sensitivity and open-ended exploration. Tracks like “Who Knows The Path” and “Geological Observations” hover and warp with airy, measured patience, revealing a sparkling radiance in its long-hewn chord progressions and experimental delay techniques. In its quiet unfolding, the record reminds us that true discovery in music often comes not from force, but from attunement to the vastness of the natural world it emerges from. – Tana

• ARTIST: Various Artists
• TITLE: Sounds of Taiwan
• LABEL: Pure Person Press
• STYLE: Ambient / Field Recording
• LOCATION: Taiwan

Taiwanese artist Lim Giong is perhaps most well-known internationally for his iconic electronic soundtrack for Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s cult classic y2k-era film Millennium Mambo. However, Giong’s work extends well beyond film: he was the first pop star to sing in the Taiwanese dialect; he is considered the godfather of Taiwan’s electronic and DJ culture; he also collected field recordings and produced delicate ambient music. Sounds of Taiwan is a new compilation bridging the past and present utilizing Giong’s personal field recordings. Featuring Giong’s “Family Time” alongside new works by artists like No Translation, Point Hsu, and CFCF, the collection serves as ode to one of Taiwan’s most influential cultural figures as well as the country’s people, landscapes, and spirituality.

• ARTIST: Blake Mills & Pino Palladino
• TITLE: That Wasn’t A Dream
• LABEL: Impulse!
• STYLE: Jazz
• LOCATION: Los Angeles

Pino Palladino and Blake Mills returned with their second collaborative album on Impulse. While 2021’s Notes with Attachments set the stage for the duo’s hypnotic, world-infused jazz, That Wasn’t A Dream presents another step forward in the duo’s the ever-evolving musical chemistry. Recorded over a two-month period in the legendary Studio A at Sound City Studios, That Wasn’t A Dream sees Palladino and Mills dive deeper into space and texture with both instrumentalists introducing fresh elements to the mix: Palladino has further developed his layered compositional approach with multiple fretted & fretless basses often going at once, sometimes panned to each side, and at other times combined for a texturally rich, full-ranged sound; Mills has introduced a new instrument that features prominently throughout the album, the fretless baritone sustainer guitar, which sounds completely otherworldly. Once again, contemporary saxophone innovator Sam Gendel puts his singular touch on nearly all the tracks.

• ARTIST: Lucrecia Dalt
• TITLE: A Danger to Ourselves
• LABEL: RVNG Intl
• STYLE: Experimental / Pop
• LOCATION: Colombia

We know firsthand how precisely rendered Lucrecia Dalt’s new album is — its details revealed themselves slowly during a shared listening in early October, the kind of session where silence feels like participation. A Danger to Ourselves, released on RVNG Intl., finds the Colombian composer and former civil engineer turning from conceptual abstraction toward something more immediate and embodied. The music feels velvet-hammered and delicately shaped: clangy rhythms softened by piano, handclaps, and breath, the tension between the mechanical and the human held in exquisite balance. Kindred spirits Juana Molina and Camille Mandoki join her here, along with David Sylvian, who co-produces and performs throughout. Written while touring ¡Ay!, the album gathers fragments of desire, doubt, and devotion into songs sung in Spanish — spare, lyrical, and quietly devastating. It’s a record that blossoms with volume, each layer revealing new fractures and harmonies until what first seems austere opens into something radiant and deeply alive.