LA CONTEST: Win Access to the FLOOD Launch Party with a Performance by Cold War Kids

With her debut collection of drum and bass music, the English musician comments on the history of a multitude of subgenres in a way that’s never navel-gazey and always assured.

Marie Ulven’s revved-up sophomore LP is both fun and uncomfortable, a poperatic portrait of the artist fucking up and learning in real time.

Though continuing to build off the blueprint of 2012’s Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi replaces some of that early release’s angst with a measured positivity on the group’s eighth album.