sonics

It wasn’t until “brat,” her fifth studio album, that her poignant lyricism and experimental sonics began to click with the general population.

On Friday, Carti — the gothic Atlanta emcee whose mix of extreme-metal sonics and disorienting trap music made him a Gen Z megastar—released ”Music,” his long-awaited third album.

One of the most indelible moments of “Calambre,” her debut album, is the song “Buenos Aires” — a nostalgic ode to the city that she left behind, with clear nods to the funkified rock en español sonics of 1980’s South America.

Across a lot of genres — but specifically with hip-hop and R&B and drill and club and house and electronic music — you’re starting to see all of these very regional sonics burst out of these very specific regional subcultures.

They form a horizontal line, listening intently to each other as they dissect the bold sonics of the new record.