Today's Top Tune

The new album from Berlin-based, Danish-born singer, pianist, composer Agnes Obel is a deep dive into the impact that motherhood had on her creative process. Dedicated to her daughter, the album draws inspiration from the poetry of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna, the world's first known author, the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Emanuele Coccia, and Danish pop.

Kate Bollinger's Shop Girl is a set of "songs from an imagined musical". Smartly produced by Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Weyes Blood, Tyler Ballgame), the 5-song EP was inspired by the '70s kitsch of Lynsey De Paul, Kate Bush and a love for the 2006 rock opera Ribbons of War by the Philadelphia band The Extraordinaires, a favorite of Kate's while growing up.

A new compilation, decades in the making, brings together 25 pioneering experiments between musicians working with pre-Columbian instruments and artists working with more modern sounds. Compiled by Carlos Icaza and dublab's Mark “Frosty” McNeill, the collection features a mesmerizing work from Antonio Zepeda and Eugenio Toussaint called "Viento de Lluvia". 

The latest from Lucy Dacus is “No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye”, a song that she wrote 10 years ago, originally set to be part of her debut album, "No Burden". Although it never made it onto the final, it's been a favorite at live shows. Now it's available for the first time, and set to be part of the 10th anniversary vinyl reissue, due December 4th.

The innovative Argentine rapper Dillom came up in Buenos Aires' trap scene, but on his latest, he pushes further into post-punk, new wave and electronic rock. The new album is called La Nueva Violencia, or The New Violence. The title track is a two-minute controlled explosion—frantic and noisy, setting the album’s chaotic tone, and it's Today's Top Tune.