“I feel like [music] can serve functions that used to be served by things that were religious,” says electronic musician Devon Welsh. Compelling words from one half of the art pop duo Magical Cloudz, whose 2013 record Impersonator communicates a pious respect for the creative process. Welsh’s sentiment becomes more complicated when we listen closely to the darker lyrics of Magical Cloudz’s haunting, minimalist ballad “Bugs Don’t Buzz,” a song that contemplates love and death:
Bugs don’t buzz when their time approaches
We’ll be just like the roaches, my love
