Charles Darwin rarely used the term “evolution,” even as he popularized the concept that species change over successive generations. Instead, Darwin preferred the phrase “descent with modification.” His groundbreaking idea was that organisms randomly mutate over generations, and that the mutations that helped the creature survive would be passed…

With all of his many side projects, John Dwyer has become a fairly complex geometric shape. The Osees frontman is dropping no fewer than three albums this summer. Bent Arcana is Dwyer’s latest supergroup, and its self-titled debut album is a cosmic slop of funky influences performed by a…