Lucy Bedroque raps like they can’t sit still

Lucy Bedroque Credit: Courtesy the artist Los Angeles–based rage rapper Lucy Bedroque likes tracks that push your speakers into the red, a choice that’s practically de rigueur in the subgenre. But Bedroque approaches the music with a bit of nuance, treating their arrangements like tapestries: Once you get accustomed to the pummeling volume of their 2025 breakout album, Unmusique, you’ll notice bass lines that bubble like lava lamps, crackling percussion that climbs toward the heavens, and ultraprocessed vocals that make Bedroque sound like a cyborg baring its soul. Like Unmusique, their follow-up album, September’s C, came out on buzzy indie label Deadair, which has also released music by Chicago-based underground auteur Jane Remover. Jane Remover has helped shape digicore and hyperpop, anything-goes electronic subgenres under whose umbrellas Bedroque’s fidgety, uncompromising experimentation might just as easily fit.

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