From battle-torn narcissism & candy-flipping slashers to Muskogee runaways & dog diarrhea

From robotic slavery & transactional sex work to talking horses & poop jokes

From post-apocalyptic oceans & sulfurous hellscapes to robotic mammoths & fraction-loving frogs

From a face-peeling orgy and an overdetermined slumber party to pixelated image-withdrawal and a porridge of majesty & crap

Engaging in our messy humanity through pop music’s bile, blood, and phlegm

Our picks spread across five themed mixes

Radical softness, broken records, and the value of looking around

15 honest-to-goodness curators carving us a path through the madness

Aesthetic conservation and life after criticism

A brief but rewarding reprieve from reality