Pitchfork Selects highlights Aja Monet, DJ Koze, Mary in the Junkyard and more

Pitchfork’s latest Selects playlist gives the 27 May digest a useful snapshot of what the wider indie and alternative conversation sounds like right now. The playlist includes Aja Monet’s Working Class Musicians, DJ Koze’s Spiralen, Mary in the Junkyard, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Bladee, Fakemink, Marisa Anderson and other current tracks.

That range is exactly what makes a modern indie digest tricky and exciting. The old borders are mostly gone. A spoken-word jazz poet can sit beside a left-field house producer, a noisy young guitar band, a modular electronic composer, a Drain Gang icon and an experimental folk guitarist without the playlist feeling incoherent. Instead, it reflects how listeners actually move now: by mood, discovery, aesthetic trust and curiosity rather than old genre rules.

For 27 May, this is a good news item because it ties together several releases we have been following across the month. Aja Monet continues to carry the poetry-jazz thread, DJ Koze brings the strange dance-floor spiral, Mary in the Junkyard represent the emerging UK guitar-band wave, and Marisa Anderson keeps folk history under pressure. Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/olivia-rodrigo-aja-monet-dj-koze-this-weeks-pitchfork-selects-playlist