Week 4 of A Year with Queer Women’s Art, Film, and Music Fronted by Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote make music that doesn’t settle down. Choose Your Weapon isn’t interested in being easily categorized, quickly consumed, or neatly summarized—and that’s precisely its power. At first listen, the album Choose Your Weapon — Hiatus Kaiyote can feel disorienting. Songs stretch and fold in on themselves. Time signatures shift. Melodies arrive sideways. Genres blur into one another—neo-soul,

Week 3 of A Year with Queer Women’s Art, Film, and Music Honey is Robyn at her quietest—and maybe her bravest. After the maximal heartbreak of Body Talk, this album pulls the lights down. It’s still dance music, but it’s slower, softer, and more inward-facing. If Body Talk was about surviving in public, Honey is about feeling in private and choosing when (and how) to let that be seen. Sonically, it’s minimal and tactile. The beats are warm and rounded rather than sharp; synth

Week 2 of A Year with Queer Women’s Art, Film, and Music Fiona Apple makes albums that don’t ask for your attention so much as they require it. The Idler Wheel… is a record that pulls inward. It doesn’t perform emotion—it examines it. Where Ani DiFranco invites you into a room full of people, Fiona Apple asks you to sit alone with your thoughts and stay there a while. Released in 2012, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You Mor