Ryan Dombal - Hearing Things

Ryan Dombal is a founder, writer, and editor at Hearing Things. He has two decades of music journalism experience, and was the longtime Features Editor at Pitchfork.

212 articles

Five Albums

An ICE Agent's Least Favorite Rap Duo

Plus down-to-earth country-rock

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Five Songs

Drake Musical Theater, But Somehow Good

Plus: Are those samples having sex?

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Five Albums

A Love Letter for The End of the World

Plus gauzy shoegaze meets outré Latin trap and a Swedish ambient musician's hauntological field recordings

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Five Songs

Gen-Z Rock Philosophy and Psychedelic Onomatopoeia

Plus bubbly Japanese synth-funk and more

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Five Albums

Did Someone Say "Supergroups"?

Plus the 11-years-later return of the Alabama Shakes.

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Five Songs

A Fiddlin’ Funk Fantasy Called “Froggy”

Plus synth music that will make you want to go rodent mode

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Five Albums

Real Rockers Fostering Real Community (Seriously)

Plus a Must Hear album from a prolific ambient-rap stalwart, a lovelorn tribute to UK funky house, a frenetic hip-hop reunion, and Weezer's latest nostalgia grab.

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Five Songs

The Twink Robin to Charli's Batman

Presenting one of the year's best pop singles

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Five Albums

Pummeling Art Punk Straight From Detroit

Plus Must Hear experimental pop, emotive música Mexicana for the club, emo-pop to bring you out of your shell, and a follow up to an 11-year-old New Jersey hardcore hip-hop cult classic.

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Profile

Hana Stretton Makes Ambient Folk Music for an Overstimulated Era

How the Australian artist broke all the rules en route to becoming an unlikely cult sensation.

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A Hot New Rock Band That Actually Deserves the Hype

And a king of sad raps gets happy

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Five Albums

Juicy J's Spoken Word Jazz Album (Yes, You Read That Right)

Plus bubbly nonchalant California rap, empowering UK R&B, North Indian classical singing mixed with space-jazz and post-rock, and an icy electronic debut from a new Cambridge duo

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