Los Angeles-based artist Vienna Vienna has made a career out of turning emotional wreckage into something euphoric. “I know something you never will / Save your breath for the judge / Angel wings, Angel dust,” J shouts across the chorus, delivering one of the year’s most cathartic hooks with equal parts sneer and sincerity. Across the release, Vienna Vienna interrogated modern distraction – drugs, the internet, self-destruction, desire – and the ways people lose themselves trying to escape reality. Onstage, Vienna Vienna is electric. Confident, cathartic, and a little bit chaotic, Vienna Vienna continues to build a world where strangeness is celebrated and community comes first.