Futurism Restated: July 18, 2023

Kali Malone, Caroline Polachek, Nikki Nair, Arovane, and more

Somehow this is turning into a newsletter about drones. I’m not sure how that happened, because I do, in fact, listen to a lot of music that isn’t ambient or drone. Yet somehow, week after week, when it comes time to round up the recordings that have turned my head, they seem increasingly to be more minimalist than otherwise.

For Pitchfork this week, I r…