Our recurring feature series  Track by Track allows artists to guide readers through each song on their latest album. In this edition, duendita breaks down their latest album, existential thottie. duendita makes music for the feelers. We’ve known this since the self-contained artist and band released their debut LP, direct line to My Creator , in 2018. That album saw duendita searching within and outside of themselves for a larger sense of purpose and belonging. The projects that have followed that first one, 2024’s the mind is a miracle and 2025’s A Strong Desire to Survive , featured a defiant duendita, a person who was discontent with letting life happen to them. Their latest album, existential thottie , sees the musician continuing to explore life’s most disparate moments over rich sonic textures. “At first, I was nervous to share this project,” duendita shares in a press release. “The songs are so personal, like a diary.…