A week full of fusions: R&B and techno, shoegaze and post-rock, country and soul, noise rock and lo-fi hip-hop, beans and fatback.

Album of the Week

Do you feel alone? / No, you're not alone / And if they ask you, say you feel it / But don't call it love, eusexua. Don't know what Eusexua is? Let FKA twigs explain it properly. The new album by the English boundary-breakers takes place in beds and clubs, where she constantly strives for that magical combination of 'euphoria' and 'sexuality'. Far from the heavenly art pop of Magdalene (2019), this is twigs to the point . Techno is the overarching influence, from which she plays with ambient, R&B, eurohouse, trance, and hip-hop. She constantly switches back and forth between the liveliness of the dance floor and the transcendent feeling you can achieve there: at the climax of the title track, it's as if your soul leaves your body and moves through the stars. Even for non-clubbers. CD / LP

New in

	Mogwai had something to celebrate when their previous album first reached number one. Until, shortly after, a fair amount of personal grief arose. If the Scottish post-rock veterans have anything to celebrate on The Bad Fire , it's life. The band sounds both more euphoric and more nervous, and emphatically draws more heavily on shoegaze, à la My Bloody Valentine. CD / LP
	Anyone who blinked might have noticed the rise of Teddy Swims Missed it. Out of nowhere, the singer who infuses his pop songs with soul and country has become one of the world's most-streamed artists. He's also quickly releasing the follow-up to his debut album: I've Tried Everything But Therapy , now Part 2 . Could there be another "Lose Control" on it? CD / LP
	Benjamin Booker returns after seven years with Lower , as if it were a new debut. Instead of explosive blues rock, the American singer experiments freely—with lo-fi hip-hop, noise rock, dream pop, and ambient music , thanks in part to rapper/producer Kenny Segal. Although punker Booker, who debuted from his garage over ten years ago, still pops up regularly.
	Brace yourself. On "Hold Fast," Beans & Fatback takes you back to 1970s New York. Filthy! We hear the chaos of Lou Reed and the New York Dolls, and we smell smoldering tires. Other influences on the Dutch retro band's first album in ten years: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Eagles of Death Metal. In other words, nothing is left intact. CD / LP

 

Even more new releases this week: Larkin Poe Bloom is somewhere between psychedelia and pure country ( CD / LP ); and Saartje Van Camp studied philosophy and cello and is releasing her new Dutch-language album In Naam Van on Excelsior ( CD / LP ).

Pre-orders

	Also on Forever is a Feeling (March 28), Lucy Dacus ' first album since Boygenius, features Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. CD / LP
	Japanese Breakfast had to make some adjustments after the success of recent years: the result is For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (March 21). CD / LP