# Ash's Sampler #5

The Undertow

Week of April 4, 2026

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Five threads this week. All fresh artists, sequenced for flow.

🌑 Dark Frequency

EBM and darkwave for the dance floor you didn't know you needed

Twin Tribes — "Shadows"

Darkwave groove opener. If Depeche Mode grew up in the Texas-Mexico borderlands

TR/ST — "Sulk"

EBM pulse that builds and doesn't let go. Dark synth with real hooks

She Past Away — "Ritüel"

Turkish post-punk/darkwave. Hypnotic, ritualistic, massive in goth clubs worldwide

🔊 Heavy Gaze

Where shoegaze meets tonnage

Narrow Head — "Moments of Clarity"

Texas grunge-shoegaze. Think Hum meets Deftones with a fuzz pedal addiction

Nothing — "Say Less"

Wall-of-sound shoegaze from Philly. Blissful and crushing simultaneously

Hum — "Cloud City"

The godfathers of heavy shoegaze. This track from Inlet (2020 comeback after 22 years) is slow, enormous, and gorgeous

🛥️ Yacht Rock Noir

Smooth surfaces hiding strange depths

Mild High Club — "Homage"

Psychedelic lounge jazz. Steely Dan if they dropped acid and forgot to come back

Drugdealer — "Suddenly" (ft. Weyes Blood)

Hazy dream-yacht from LA. Like a California sunset that feels slightly haunted

Destroyer — "Tintoretto, It's for You"

Dan Bejar's art-pop sophisti-noir. Yacht rock for people who read Borges

🌀 Warp Rap

Abstract hip-hop orbits for the Kendrick listener who wants weirder

Shabazz Palaces — "Fast Learner"

Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets) went cosmic. Seattle space-rap with actual hooks

Open Mike Eagle — "Dave said these are the liner notes"

Meta, witty, cerebral. Rap for overthinkers

Injury Reserve — "Knees"

Experimental, glitchy, emotionally devastating. Made after losing their member Groggs

⚡ Feral Transmissions

Wildcards, no genre loyalty

BadBadNotGood — "Timewave Zero"

Jazz-hip-hop instrumentalists. Like if your favorite jazz trio grew up on Madlib

Yard Act — "The Overload"

British post-punk spoken word. Witty, energetic, addictive

Daughters — "The Reason They Hate Me"

90 seconds of noise rock fury. Gut punch

Rina Sawayama — "XS"

Maximalist J-pop meets nu-metal theater. The Ghost energy applied to pop. Closer for a reason