Gwendolyn Dot has some questions. More than a few, really.

“Having complex emotions tends to drive me to figure it out,” the Detroit performer says. “Making music is one way I’m crystallizing it — so that I can understand more of what’s going on. [Music] always helps me understand more about my own experience and the ideas I might be wrestling with at the time.”

Dot’s music and lyrics become a means to cathartically articulate these questions and ideas, particularly when she invites us to consider, for example, the purposeful destruction of repressive societal structures that not only ingrain and perpetuate but also trap us in toxic cycles.

But that’s also conveyed by Dot through captivating arrangements of head-swimming synths and danceable beats, swooning atmospheric drones, and entra

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