Radio Boise, KRBX

‘The Worse the Better’ is a fun little bop about water-sliding into the abyss. A woozy anthem for the downwardly mobile about the crushing banality of evil rendered by the acid vat of late-stage capitalism as we work dead-end jobs at the end of history and pray for some technocratic savior to build us a biodome on Mars. Loud and fast and then sputtering and wheezing, kind of like a dream machine going kaputt as it runs out of gas.

“Polvo” is not named after the great ’90s math-rock band from North Carolina, so get that out of your head. Polvo, you see, is also the Spanish word for dust, and Mr Twin Sister’s new song is all about how weird it is to think that we’ve always got particles of dead things circulating in our lungs. In a press release, lead singer Estella says, “‘Polvo’ is about how death fuels life, how we’re all connected, and how we must die in order to live.”