The Drift: the best in weird and experimental music

Cal Cashin rounds up the month’s best in strange and avant-garde sounds from around the world, including an album by 7-11 year olds

Good afternoon, fellow Drifters. Can you believe we’re already onto the sixth edition of this column? It’s been a wild ride, but I really feel like together we’ve already been to some very weird and worthwhile places. This month, we’re off to some pretty crazy outer limits too, in search of the most beautiful and interesting music released over the last month or so. We’ll explore Baile Funk for the first time, delve into some epic collage club music and hear what a group of 7-11 years have to say for themselves (spoiler: it’s weird).

Each month, I try to find a loose theme to connect the albums I’ve written about, but there is no such housekeepaing this month. The albums featured share very little in common with each other, and, I’d like to think, also with very little else. In my book, that’s a very good sign. I hope these are as life affirming to you as they are to me.