Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Pop/R&B / Experimental Label: Untitled (Recs) Release Date: 2026 Lauren Auder only goes for big swings. As the French and British songwriter put it to The Line of Best Fit: “To my own detriment probably, I’m very invested in making big-sounding records… and that’s a lot of work.” Though she started as a SoundCloud rap producer, by her 2023 debut, the infinite spine, she had developed a beguiling form of chamber pop equally inspired by experimental music and piano-based soft rock. Its callbacks to early ’00s piano pop are nostalgic but slippery: Auder’s cryptic references to numerology and scattered blasts of noise are rarely easy to digest. Imagine an entire musical project with the energy of Kristin Hayter belting Hoobastank’s “The Reason,” and you’re in the ballpark. Not a lot of acts are going for broke right now, especially when plenty of musicians are just plain broke. Auder’s second album, Whole World as Vigil, doubles down anyway.…