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Kate Bush Taught Pop How to Dream with Hounds of Love If Kate Bush’s The Dreaming is a hellscape of bizarre fragmentation and nightmarish beauty, Hounds of Love teaches pop how to dream and capture those contradictions in sound. – @filmfanatic82 READ: tinyurl.com/mry98nwu

Americana's BettySoo is a triple threat. She’s got a great voice, plays a mean acoustic guitar, and writes insightful lyrics. She also has a sly sense of humor and a sultry sensibility. #PMPick 'If You Never Go Away' is out now. REVIEW: tinyurl.com/BettySoo25

How a Decaying Monstrosity Powered Tame Impala’s ‘Currents’ Ten years ago, a “gigantic, derelict, empty, silent monolith” sparked Tame Impala’s imagination while composing one of the most memorable albums of the 2010s. READ: tinyurl.com/TameImpala25

NEW REVIEW of Ray Brown via @PopMatters! "Rigorously exhaustive in its detail of Brown’s discography, studiously reverent in its assessment of Brown’s talent, and matter-of-fact about Brown’s purist views regarding jazz-rock and the avant-garde." popmatters.com/ray-brown-jay-…

Sci-Fi Goes Hi-Fi: 10 Artists Explore Hip-Hop Futurism These ten hip-hop artists' works have been shaped in some form or another by the works of sci-fi in the Afrofuturist mold. READ: tinyurl.com/SciFiRap

Home Is Where effortlessly blend alternative country into their emo for a potent collection of songs of anger and hope. @homeiswhereband's 'Hunting Season' is out now via @WaxBodega. REVIEW: tinyurl.com/HomeWhere

Julian Cubillos' new self-titled album finds him working on a slightly smaller scale, yet with compositions and melodies that are bright, complex, and intelligent. Out on Friday via @ruinationrecs. REVIEW: tinyurl.com/JCubillos25

The Thunderbolts Put Up a Fight for Teamwork in MCU's New Superhero Film What Thunderbolts communicates about teamwork taps into one of the greatest social science mysteries of contemporary history: the nature of individual-group relation. – @RsquaredComicz READ:…

The Martians Probes the First Time Americans Went Nuts for Aliens David Baron’s pop history of the early Martian mania, The Martians (a #PMPick), probes how deception, promoted by the fantasies of single-minded obsessives, predated Silicon Valley. READ: tinyurl.com/yea7u995

Jazz Visionary Brandee Younger Redefines the Harp Brandee Younger is one of the most celebrated and unique jazz artists to emerge in the 21st century. She redefines the harp’s potential in #jazz and beyond. @harpista_'s 'Gadabout Season' is a #PMPick [9/10] out now. INTERVIEW:…

Before Darkness Descends: Elliott Smith’s Self-Titled at 30 Elliott Smith’s self-titled sophomore album marks the beginning of his solo career in earnest, and it remains one of the finest indie records of the 1990s. – @for3stpunk READ: tinyurl.com/ElliottSmith30

Murderland’s Toxic Environment of Serial Killers Did our toxic environment affect a generation of serial killers? Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser leads a creepy and complicated examination. READ: tinyurl.com/yc8bd8bv

Eddington Is a Feverishly Funny Neo-Western Provocation No major film since Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction has tackled the culture war fray with the force, specificity, and humor of Ari Aster’s Eddington. #PMPick READ: tinyurl.com/NeoWestern

The Sick Man of Europe highlights the adverse effects of complicity in the digital age, resulting in a Kafkaesque nightmare; this record serves as a clarion call. 'The Sick Man of Europe' is a #PMPick out now. REVIEW: tinyurl.com/SickMan25

Isaiah Collier's performance becomes compelling in a way that surpasses expectations, bringing John Coltrane's famous "sheets of sound" to life with a complete rendition of 'A Love Supreme'. – @gms111 REVIEW: tinyurl.com/Isaiah2025

Clifford's sounds are drawn from a multitude of influences, yet the resulting combination is focused, unique, and often spellbinding. 'Golden Caravan' is a #PMPick out Friday via @sippycupyall. REVIEW: tinyurl.com/Clifford25