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MetalmindStats on the choices this week:

10,000 gecs:
The hyperpop maestros broaden their inspirations while bolstering their signature style in their second studio album. My personal introduction to them, I feel its both the most sonically accomplished and consistently, almost overwhelmingly catchy-fun music the two have made to date.
[Year - 2023 | Runtime - 26:53 | Example Track - Dumbest Girl Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOPz1vqeZU]

Oneknowing:
If you know Lena Raine, it's probably for her VGM, not for what she considers her debut artist album. Here, vocals manipulated to serve as another instrument waft in and out amidst echoes of her past compositions and bold new soundscapes alike. The results oscillate from dreamy pop to distorted electronica and elsewhere and back again multiple times, making for an effect I find wonderfully indescribable.
[Year - 2019 | Runtime - 38:51 | Example Track - Trance State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8j5TGaX8g]

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides:
Likely the most familiar of my choices as Fools nominated it twice before, but theyre not the only one here who carries a torch. There's a genre push-pull in play here somewhat like Oneknowing, and as a musical boundary-pushing endeavor from an artist rooted in hyperpop, it bears some similarities to 10,000 gecs too. SOPHIE's sole studio album is singular in all its own ways, however.
[Year - 2018 | Runtime - 39:55 | Example Tracks - Immaterial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3yIv9nwf8 and Faceshopping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ6ppVyWgCI]

Three discoveries from three different internet sources, the last thanks to our hardworking host (hence their sample song choices). They're all totally distinct and yet birds of a feather in a few different ways, some more obvious than others. And I hold all three nearer and dearer each time I give them a listen.