What we’re listening to, watching, and reading right now.

There is so much art out there that it’s absolutely impossible to keep up. Whether it’s a slept-on post-punk album from the ‘80s, a new sci-fi novel, or a cult classic horror movie, we’re always finding new obsessions here at The Verge — and we want to share those obsessions with you. Sometimes that might be a new release, but often it’s going to be something a little older, something not necessarily plastered all over TikTok or sitting at the top of the charts on Spotify.

We’ve said it before, but the best way to find new music, a new show to binge, or a self-help book that isn’t pure trash is to skip the algorithm and get a recommendation from actual humans. And it just so happens that The Verge employs a number of those (humans, that is). So checkback regularly for new art to fall in love with, and tell us about your latest obsessions in the comments. Maybe your new favorite album will become one of our new favorites, too.

  • You need to listen to Laurie Spiegel’s masterpiece of early ambient music
  • You need to watch the intensely surreal cult classic Possession
  • You need to listen to the new Mandy, Indiana record: URGH
  • You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
  • You need to listen to Billy Woods’ horrorcore masterpiece for the A24 crowd
  • You need to read the subversive cosmic horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom
  • You need to listen to these Christmas deep cuts
  • You need to listen to Sudan Archives’ violin opus for the club
  • You need to watch the modern horror masterpiece His House
  • You need to read the treatise on spacing out, Bored and Brilliant
  • You need to listen to the searing noise pop album Forever in Your Heart
  • You need to listen to this compilation of ‘80s Spanish ambient and electronic music
  • You need to watch the found footage classic, Lake Mungo
  • You need to listen to the brutally oppressive I’ve Seen All I Need to See
  • You need to read the epic Argentinian horror novel Our Share of Night
  • You need to watch the bonkers Japanese fantasy horror film House

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