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After years of countless controversies and artistic detours, Brockhampton has returned with “ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE,” focusing on emotionally potent, but colorful and bright bangers. Ever since signing to RCA Records, Brockhampton has been in an uphill battle. From losing one of their core members, Ameer Vann, to a slew of allegations against members, it seemed like the “Saturation” trilogy would be their peak. Between “iridescence” and “GINGER,” the group put their ...

Coming a few years after their last full-length album, the indie oddity Tune-Yards has returned with some of their most unabashedly fun music on “sketchy.” The group’s 2018 “I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life” was, while as outlandish as any Tune-Yards project up to that point, also a stark look inward. Beyond...

“It’s kind of like throwing a little adult fit.” This is how musician and recent CSU, Chico graduate Jayna Feldman encapsulated her new single, “i don’t want to!”  The song was released to the public on March 3 and explores Feldman’s mindset about entering the next stage of her life as a Chico State alumna. To put it simply, it is a song about not wanting to grow up. The Orion spoke with Feldman and her managerial team that helped her with promotion preceding the song’s release...

Isaac Dunbar is, above all else, passionate. The Massachusetts-based alternative pop artist is talented, but beyond this, it is clear that he loves making the music that he does. It is also very transparent that he is young and has room to grow. His newest EP, “evil twin,” exemplifies this fact with its eccentric songwriting and production that runs the gamut of pop in 2021. His dynamism turns out to be the result of him not having found his own clear voice, and relying heavily on what I im...

At this point in their career, Weezer feels more like a force of nature than they do a band that released a couple of classic rock records in the ’90s. Sometimes they’re a breath of fresh air, sometimes a treacherous trek from one cornball of a track to another. On their newest installment, “OK Human,”...