Black Terry Cat

On her second album, Xenia Rubinos negotiates a world that has prescribed ideas about how she should be—particularly as a person of color—and incisively questions her place outside of those roles.

Singer, songwriter, and keyboardist/bass player Xenia Rubinos first unleashed her inventive indie rock on a broader audience with her 2013 debut, Magic Trix.

With her smoky, soulful croon drifting dreamily through a complex warren of New York’s backstreet beats, Xenia Rubinos’s second album is a fiery combination of jazz, hip hop, R&B and punk influences.