On June 23, 2023, Annika Socolofsky, a composer and avant-folk vocalist who explores colorful corners of the human voice — tones and timbres and techniques often dismissed as “untrained” or “unClassical” — releases Don’t Say a Word, an album of feminist-rager lullabies for the new queer era. Socolofsky, a “grotesquely gorgeous” (Chicago Tribune), an “unbearably moving” (Gramophone) composer, possesses “just the right balance between edgy precision and freewheeling exuberance” (The Guardian). And on Don’t Say a Word, a rebellion against the hetero-patriarchy, her voice carries us to worlds tender and violent and everything in between.