Debuts rarely sound as composed, bold, or downright intense as Tether, the decade-in-the-making LP from Annahstasia. After years of craft, exploration, and industry tumult, the singer-songwriter enlisted producers for Frank Ocean, ANOHNI, and Moses Sumney for a record that shares those artists’ pop instincts, as well as their steely nerve, threading outsider artistry into compositions that range from haunted folk laments to gothic outpourings like closer “Believer”—the kind of song, said Annahstasia in press materials, that “some teenager in the midwest plays on repeat for two hours straight high off his mind laying on the shag rug, staring at the basement ceiling, dreaming and crying.”

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FearDorian: Out the Past With a Window [self-released]

A few months after Leaving Home, FearDorian is back with a new, self-produced record of bitesize rap odysseys. The rapper-producer and Surf Gang associate brings along guests Ladé and Prblem for Out the Past With a Window, recorded between New York and his Atlanta hometown and in the spirit of his sometime stomping ground of Milwaukee.

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Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal [7K!/pop.soil]